We've heard so much about the January fiscal cliff that I'm afraid we've lost sight of the real fiscal cliff just a few years ahead of us: the approaching bankruptcy of our nation. Sadly, Congress began the new year by taking us much closer to that cliff.
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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.
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.
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