mr. grayson. the chair recognizes mr. grayson for five minutes. mr. grayson: thank you, mr. chairman. i' running to a subject-i'm returning to a subject that i began yesterday. what the rich are going to do with the tax cuts the republicans want to give to them through extending the bush tax cuts for the rich in lieu of the obama tax cuts for the middle class. as i said yesterday with regard to the 1% top income group in this country, the high and mighty who earn more than $1.3 million a year in taxable income, according to the republican plan, each one of them will receive a tax cut every single year of $83,347 each year. now, i have given a lot of thought to what they are going to do with that money. i made some suggestions yesterday. and here are some more suggestions about what they could possibly do with this windfall that the republicans want to hand to them at a me when this country has 9.5% unemployment, 40 million people who cannot see a doctor when they are sick, and so many people who are in danger of losing their homes. for instance, the rich, the idle rich, the high and m

mr. grayson: i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order and substitute for mr. sherman. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. grayson: mr. grayson: i'll be using these graphics, mr. speaker, the graphics to my right. mr. speaker, sometime between now and december 31, we will be discussing tax cuts. specifically whether to extend the president obama tax cuts to the middle class or whether to extend the george w. bush tax cuts for the rich. i think it's important for people to understand exactly who this money will be received by. in the case of the obama tax cuts, like the child tax credit, it will be are received by needy parents who need the money in order to pay the mortgage, pay the rent, pay their car mamentes, credit card payments, and in the case of the bush tax cuts for the rich, it will be received by the rich. in fact, for the top 1% of income in this country, the high and mighty, the people who make an average of $1.4 million every single year, according to these charts i'm about to show, you will see the

mr. grayson of florida. mr. smith of new jersey. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from texas, mr. burgess is are recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. burgess: i thank the speaker for the recognition. i want to do what i do often which is come to the floor of this house and talk to my colleagues on both sides about the issues that remain in health care, this congress as it winds down in its last days has certainly seen and done some dramatic work and has seen some dramatic pushback by the american people on some of the work that's been done. so i thought it might be useful as we wind up this last part of the 111th congress, the congress that will forever go down in history as that which has fundamentally changed the way every man, woman, and child in this country receives and will receive health care for the next several generations, i thought it appropriate to talk about how we got to where we are and what i see over the horizon, what's likely to occur in the nex