[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H3928-H3929]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            DAY-CARE CREDIT

  (Mrs. KENNELLY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. KENNELLY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I stood here 
talking about the millions of families that were going to lose part of 
their child credit if, in fact, they took their day-care credit, 
millions of families.

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  Yesterday the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Archer] sent a letter to the 
President offering to modify the Committee on Ways and Means package, 
drop the provision of taking away 50 percent of the child-care credit.
  The gentleman from Texas, Chairman Archer, has gone halfway; he can 
do better. Now any family who earns over $50,000, $50,000, one, will 
lose their credit. That might sound like a lot of money to somebody. 
But to a policeman and a teacher working, paying their FICA tax, trying 
to save money to educate their children, that day-care credit is 
important.
  Today, I say the headline is 2 million families are better off. The 
gentleman from Texas [Mr. Archer] can make additional families better 
off tomorrow. We have not gone to the Committee on Rules. He is on the 
right track. Let us get rid of that interaction between the day-care 
credit and the child care credit, it will be a better bill.

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