Obviously the President is mindful of the tax cuts for the middle class that expire at the end of the year, and the President will fight to ensure that those middle-class tax cuts are protected.

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And primary beneficiaries of the relief provided in the Recovery Act, of the tax cut deal that the President made with Republicans at the end of last year, has been the middle class.

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Just before we got here, Congress did the right thing and voted to make sure that taxes would not go up on middle-class families at the end of this month. (Applause.) Congress also agreed to extend unemployment insurance for millions of Americans -- maybe some of your family members -- who are still out there looking for a job.

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My students show up to class every single day knowing that at the end of their four years they just might not have a job, and indeed most of them do not, but yet there's a desire to learn and a desire to change their lives.

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At the end of the day, Jordan was a world-class basketball player because that was the sport that best matched his natural ability, talent, and training.

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We cannot have Congress leave for the holidays without a solution to an issue that will bring a hardship -- potentially a big hardship to middle-class families at the end of the year.

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