Statement by the White House Press Secretary on Tonight’s House Vote on the GOP Payroll Tax Cut Plan

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. 

This Congress needs to do its job and stop the tax hike that’s scheduled to affect 160 million Americans in 18 days.  This is not a time for Washington Republicans to score political points against the President.  It’s not a time to refight old ideological battles.  And it’s not a time to break last summer’s bipartisan agreement and hurt the middle class by cutting things like education, clean energy, and veterans’…