Statement from Senator Coons on vote to avert the “fiscal cliff”

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement early Tuesday morning after voting for a deal to avert the “fiscal cliff” and prevent taxes from going up on Delaware’s middle-class families. “Ninety-eight percent of Americans, including middle class families and small businesses in Delaware, can breathe a sigh of relief if the House acts, as it should, to prevent dramatic tax increases from tak...