Too Much Eggnog? Rep. Jim McDermott (D) Pulls Wacky Santa Stunt

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Too Much Eggnog? Rep. Jim McDermott (D) Pulls Wacky Santa Stunt

Rep. McDermott on floor putting coal into a Christmas stocking on payroll bill

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REP. JIM MCDERMOTT (D): Now the Republicans have said its Christmas time, kids are hanging their socks all over the world! And they're all getting up and hoping that something will be in that sock on Christmas day.

And the Republicans have something to put in it! They have a lump of coal. They're going to say to 160 million people, we're going to boost your taxes, here's your Christmas gift, right? We're going to say to 2.5 million unemployed people, no unemployment benefits because its only for 2 months and we can't...

There's every excuse in the book you can give, but when they get up on Christmas there's going to be coal in their sock!

The working poor of this country are counting on that tax break. They've gone out and bought gifts for their kids! And they think they are going to pay for them because they have this tax reduction and you're taking it away from them after the spent the money on the Christmas gifts.

That's your lump of coal to the middle class!

Now for the seniors the lump of coal is... we're not going to pay the doctors, we're goingt to cut the doctors by 25% and doctors are going to say I'm going to limit the number of seniors.

Remember the lump of coal in November of 2012, folks. They gave it to you!

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