Van Hollen: We May Well Take Up Tax Cuts Before The Midterm

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/van-hollen-we-may-well-take-up-tax-cuts-before-the-midterm.php

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) Sunday came closer than any member of Democratic leadership thus far to suggesting that Democrats may indeed hold a vote on middle-class tax cuts before the November elections.

"We are absolutely going to get this done before the end of the year," Van Hollen said on Meet the Press. "We may well take it up before the midterms."

Van Hollen, who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, left his party plenty of wiggle room in the event that the House waits until after the election to hold the vote. But he walked further toward suggesting that the vote might come next week than did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who on Friday told reporters, "We will retain the right to proceed as we choose," Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference."


Van Hollen calls tax cuts for rich 'nonsense'
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0910/Van_Hollen_Tax_cuts_for_rich_are_just_nonsense.html
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"This notion that you need to have these tax breaks for the very top, to create jobs and economic expansion ... those tax rates are in effect right now. They're in effect right now. I don't see all this job creation as a result of those tax cuts. They've been in effect for nine years," Van Hollen said on NBC's "Meet the Press."


David Gregory's twitter
http://twitter.com/davidgregory
Van Hollen: (Bush tax cuts) have been in effect for nine years. At the end of those nine years, we’ve seen losses of millions of jobs

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1. He was good!

I highly recommend checking when the video comes up on the MTP web page. He smacked Mike Pence around really good on top of all of that.

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2. They had better hold a vote.

Let the (R)s come out with the attack ads. They will do it with or without a vote! Regardless, the Dems must show leadership on this issue and not back down. And another thing, my congresscritter had better vote to cut middle class taxes and allow the highest income cuts to expire...