# 2012-12-08 President Obama's Weekly Address

President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "Congress Must Extend the Middle Class Tax Cuts" from December 8, 2012. Original description of the speech: "In this week’s address, President Obama urged Congress to extend the middle class income tax cuts for 98% of Americans and 97% of small businesses without delay, and made clear that a balanced approach to deficit reduction means that Republicans in Congress must agree to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay higher tax rates."

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 3 min
- By: The White House
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2012-12-08_President_Obama%27s_Weekly_Address.ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: The White House
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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