[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H3930-H3931]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      STAND WITH WORKING AMERICANS

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, this is a wakeup call for 
working America and a wakeup call for

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middle-income Americans. Many of us as Democrats have had a prior life, 
and many times as local officials we voted all the time to cut taxes 
and stand with working Americans.
  I do not know what the Republicans are talking about, but when you 
take 6 million families and you deny them a child tax credit when they 
have expenses of child care, that is not standing with working 
Americans. When you hurt women workers by making them independent 
contractors so they cannot get health coverage or pension benefits, 
that is not standing with working Americans.
  And then small businesses. When they are denied the right to take 100 
percent deductibility for the health coverage that they provide their 
workers but yet the big guys can take 100 percent deductions, the 
corporations can do it, then my Republican colleagues are not 
listening.
  You do not know that the Democrats are standing with working 
Americans. We want a tax cut, but we want it for the bunch of Americans 
who work every day. Middle-income Americans who are trying to support 
their children know the facts. Stand with the Democrats who have a bill 
that you can support that has a real tax plan.

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