[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 98 (Friday, July 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5134]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   THE PRESIDENT'S EDUCATION TAX PROPOSAL WILL HELP WORKING FAMILIES

  (Mr. GREEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, I am a little outnumbered on our side. We 
will have to get reinforcements.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to stand up and say that I disagree with the 
one-minutes from the other side because you do not need to be a Harvard 
Law School or business graduate to know what is happening in the 
Republican tax bill, but let me talk about how important the 
educational tax cuts are in both the President's plan and also in the 
Democratic alternative.
  There are a lot of people in this country who are middle-class, who 
make $30,000 a year, and yet their kids are not eligible for Pell 
Grants. But the President's plan and also the Democratic plan, with the 
educational tax cuts proposal, would help those people make sure that 
the next generation has the opportunity to go to college. We are not 
talking about wealthy folks. We are talking about average working folks 
who go to work every day, maybe a school teacher who makes $30,000 a 
year, with two children at home having to go to college. That is what 
we are talking about, and that is why the Republican plan is so wrong. 
Hopefully, the conference committee will correct this.

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