The Election is a little over a week ahead, but what about the Lame Duck Session of Congress?

The Election is 11/6/2012

Lame Duck Session

After the election, Congress will begin their Lame Duck Session. During this session they have indicated the three major pieces of legislation are the following issues. Make your voice heard by E-mailing this ballot to your Representative and Senators today.

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Bush Era Tax Cuts

The Bush Tax Cuts, are a series of temporary income tax relief measures enacted in 2001 and 2003. The tax cuts lowered federal income tax rates for everyone, decreased the marriage penalty, lowered capital gains taxes, lowered the tax rate on dividend income, increased the child tax credit from $500 to $1,000 per child, eliminated the phaseout on personal exemptions for higher-income taxpayers and eliminated the phaseout on itemized deductions, in addition to other taxes.

Should the Bush-era tax cuts be extended?

• Yes, but only on those who earn less than $250,000.00 a year?
• Yes, but only on those who earn less than $1 Million a year?

Sequester

Sequester is a package of automatic spending cuts. The cuts, which are projected to total $1.2 trillion, are scheduled to begin in 2013 and end in 2021, evenly divided over the nine-year period. The cuts are also evenly split between defense spending and discretionary domestic spending, which exempts most entitlements. The total cuts for 2013 will be $109 billion, according to the new White House report.

• Should Congress cancel the $109 billion in automatic discretionary spending cuts?
• Should Congress exempt defense spending from the cuts?

Farm Bill

The Farm Bill is a multi-year, multi-billion dollar measure to govern farm, nutrition and rural-conservation programs. Lawmakers are divided along regional, rather than party, lines. The kinds of protections to promise farmers and the balance that should be struck between funding for farm subsidy and nutrition (food stamp) programs are at the forefront of floor debates.

• Do you think the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) should be cut?
• Should SNAP applicants be required to take a drug test before receiving benefits?
• Should farmers receive payments for land they don’t plant?
• Should Congress raise import tariffs on foreign farm product producers?

Time is short, please voice your thoughts now?

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11/6/2012

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As a member of CR25 in Cedar Rapids, our new polling place is:

Calvin Sinclair Presbyterian Church

715 38th Street SE, Cedar Rapids

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