Coming Together to Address the Fiscal Cliff
Monday, August 06, 2012
Congressmen Robert J. Dold (R-IL-10), Daniel Lipinski (D-IL-3),
Charles Bass (R-NH-2) and Steven LaTourette (R-OH-14) spoke at a
bipartisan press conference on Aug. 2 to stress the importance of
Congress coming together to address the looming fiscal cliff.
"We are facing the most predictable crisis facing our nation in
decades," said U.S. Rep. Dold. "We are here today not as
Republicans or Democrats, but as Americans so that we can urge
Congress to seek common ground and move our country forward. We
need to put people before politics and progress before partisanship
so that we can put a bipartisan plan in action and address the
fiscal cliff facing our nation. I am proud to stand with my
colleagues here today as we are committed to working together."
"Time is running out for us to avoid going over the fiscal
cliff," Rep. Lipinski said. "Both parties are going to have to stop
playing political games and start working together to reduce the
deficit, before it's too late. We showed the kind of leadership
that will be necessary when we introduced and voted for legislation
based on the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles plan. Now we need more of
our colleagues to step up and join us in the search for common
ground."
"All of the great decisions that have been made in American
history have been made by people who have great principle but are
willing to compromise," said U.S. Rep. Bass. "Compromise is
not a capitulation of principle - it's getting the nation's
business done. Right now, America is calling out for us to
get beyond the fights of our own parties and start talking about
real solutions to avoid the fiscal cliff. That is how we can
make our nation strong, vibrant, and prosperous for our children
and grandchildren."
"People need to stop fighting over table scraps.
Everyone's most important issue has to be where we find ourselves
on this fiscal cliff," said U.S. Rep. LaTourette. "We
can't do it alone. It's going to take the leadership of the
two parties, Governor Romney and President Obama to link hands and
jump together, and understand that we got into this mess together
and will have to get out of it together."
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