[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3933]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           WHO IS ON MY SIDE?

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman who spoke about providing tax 
relief to people who do not pay taxes is absolutely off the mark. The 
fact of the matter is that people are paying payroll taxes and the 
child credit applies to those FICA or payroll taxes.
  Let us get the story straight.
  Republicans have proposed a tax cut proposal; Democrats have proposed 
a tax cut proposal. We are for tax cuts. The issue is who benefits from 
the Democratic program or the Republican program? I submit to my 
colleagues that the Republican bill is nothing more than a windfall for 
the wealthiest Americans, and a Democratic alternative offers real tax 
relief to middle-class families. The Democratic tax package puts money 
straight into the pockets of average working middle-class families. The 
majority of the benefits from the Democratic bill go to families making 
less than $100,000 a year in this country. The Republicans want to 
provide the richest corporations in this Nation and in the world with a 
reduction in their tax obligation and at the same time deny to working 
families the opportunity to get a child care tax credit because both 
men and women are in the workplace.
  Understand the debate and the argument. It is an important one.

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