[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 87 (Friday, June 20, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H4090-H4091]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  REPUBLICANS WILL PROVIDE TAX BREAKS AND TAX CUTS TO THE RICHEST IN 
                                AMERICA

  (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, let us be clear about the bogus arguments 
of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. The fact of the matter 
is that if you do not pay Federal taxes, income tax or a payroll tax, 
you are not eligible for a child tax credit in the Democratic proposal. 
If you do work and pay taxes, in fact you are eligible for the child 
tax credit.
  Let them not pull the wool over peoples' eyes, while they want to 
provide tax breaks and tax cuts to the richest 1 percent of the people 
in this country, those who make over $247,000. That is where the bulk 
of their tax break goes.
  What they have done is they have cut back on the child care tax 
credit for working families; two people in the workplace who have to be 
there for economic reasons, they have cut back

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that child care tax credit. They have cut back the education tax 
credit, the HOPE scholarships to allow working families to get their 
children to school, in an effort to provide a tax cut to the richest 1 
percent of the people in this country. It is wrong and we should not 
let it happen.

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