House Chamber, Washington D.C. The debate over the fiscal cliff has become so hyperbolic that we're losing touch with common sense. Contrary to many accounts, there is no bill before the Congress that proposes raising taxes on millionaires, or anybody else. There is a LAW that takes effect on January 1st that will raise taxes on millionaires -- and small businesses filing as millionaires -- and everybody else. And there is a bill that would spare everybody else from those tax increases that is before us today.
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To understand the federal budget mess and the so-called fiscal cliff, it's important to remember three numbers: 39, 37 and 64.
The world has become an infinitely more dangerous place in the four years since you first invited me to this annual luncheon.
I never met Marine Corps Lance Corporal Victor Dew, but I feel that I have gotten to know him since the day he came home to Granite Bay to be laid to rest in a hero's grave, in the midst of his family, his friends and neighbors, his community and his comrades in arms.
Yesterday in Auburn, the community dedicated a street in honor of local resident Col. Bud Anderson. Col. Anderson is 90-going-on-51. He flew 116 fighter combat missions against the Luftwaffe during World War II -- including in support of the D-Day Invasion -- shooting down more than 16 German aircraft, saving countless bomber crews and contributing mightily to the destruction of what Churchill called "the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny in the history of the human race." One and a half million of our World War II veterans are still alive today, and they still have much to teach us
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