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U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor Thursday inviting the president to come to the Capitol and discuss his plans to raise hundreds of billions in job-killing tax hikes:

I'd like to say a word about the president's press conference yesterday.

What I heard him propose is that we solve the debt crisis by spending more money. And that we solve a jobs crisis by raising taxes.

I want to know: Is there a single member of Congress â€" Democrat or Republican â€" who thinks it's a good idea to raise hundreds of billions in new job-killing taxes at a time when 14 million Americans are out of work? If so, I haven't heard from any of them.

But that's what the president was trying to defend yesterday.

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