Remarks by President Obama and Vice President Biden Before Signing the Middle-Class Tax Cuts Bill

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2010 – 4:00 P.M. EST

THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Thank you all very, very much.  Please be seated.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a — I wasn’t going say, a big deal, but an important deal.  (Laughter.)  I can no longer say “big deal.”  (Laughter.)  Thank god, my mother wasn’t around.

The famed 18th century British statesman, Edmund Burke, once said, “All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every…