WASHINGTON (WKZO) -- Ways and Means Committee ranking member Sander Levin supports President Obama's calling upon Congress to immediately pass a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for families making less than 250-thousand-dollars a year.

"Republicans can't hide behind their claims about small businesses when the data shows that 97-percent of taxpayers with business income earn less than 250-thousand dollars a year," says Levin.

Levin also says Republican opposition can't hide behind their claim that they care about the middle class if they hold tax relief for middle class families hostage to tax breaks for the wealthy.