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CBO Confirms, Obamacare to Tax Millions of Middle-Class Americans
September 19, 2012
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell released the following statement today regarding a new CBO report that says Obamacare will result in tax hikes for 6 million mainly middle-class Americans:
“For years, the President and his Democrat allies in Congress have sworn up and down that failing to comply with the individual mandate did not result in a tax on individuals or families. And the reason was obvious: if Americans knew that failure to comply resulted in a tax hike, it never would have passed. And now the non-partisan CBO makes clear that the tax will hit 6 million Americans—mainly middle-class individuals and families. This is just one more reason among many for why Obamacare must be repealed.”
Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony Honoring Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Remarks of the Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
September 19, 2012
“Mrs. Bush, Speaker Boehner, Leader Reid, Reverend clergy, colleagues, distinguished guests, and friends.
“Over the years, we’ve recognized many remarkable men and women in this place of honor — all of them extraordinary. It would be foolish to try to make comparisons among them.
“Yet for me at least, today’s ceremony is particularly meaningful.
“I first came to know of the woman we honor today more than two decades ago. I came across an article that told the story of her struggle, and from that moment on, I’ve felt compelled in my own small way to make that cause my own.
“It was impossible not to be moved by her quiet resolve, her hidden yet luminous heroism. And it’s impossible today, all these years later, not to be moved by the thought that this most unlikely of revolutionaries may yet witness the deepest longing of her heart: a representative, democratic system in which the people of Burma are able to enjoy their God-given rights to the full.
“It is in this hope that we stand today with the people of Burma and with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, knowing that whatever the future holds, she will fight, unflinchingly, to the end.
“Here in this place, surrounded by the statues of our own national heroes of independence and equality, we draw new inspiration from this courageous woman from a distant land.
“She reminds us that the freedoms we enjoy are not just our birthright as Americans. They are the aspiration of all men and women. And defending them will always require the kind of courage she has shown throughout her long struggle for the people of Burma.
“There are many examples of that courage, but I think my favorite took place on August 26, 1988. Suu Kyi was about to make her very public debut with a speech before more than half a million people at the Schwedagon Pagoda, and someone asked her if she wanted to wear a bullet-proof vest.
“’Why?,’ she answered, ‘If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.’
“It’s easy to throw flaming bottles from a passing car or from behind a mask. It’s easy to spray bullets from a tank at an unarmed mob. The woman we honor today chose a far more difficult path, the path of Gandhi, the path of Dr. Martin Luther King, the arduous path of idealism, peaceful resistance, civil disobedience; of voluntary renunciation for the sake of future generations she would never know.
“The path of hope.
“It was not the life she wanted, but it was, she knew, her calling. And she has been faithful.
“We are honored to stand with you today, my friend, and for the noble cause that you embody.”