[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 100 (Tuesday, July 15, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5194]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            WELFARE FAMILIES

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, in about 15 minutes the conference 
committee on taxes will meet downstairs.
  I continue to be appalled by the Republican attempt to create the 
image of people who have children and who have worked and make $24,000 
a year and calling them a welfare family.
  Now, I do not understand why a rookie policeman making $23,000, has 
two kids, is considered a welfare family and, therefore, is not 
entitled to the child tax credit. If there is any family that needs a 
tax break for its kids, it is families that are working and making less 
than $25,000. And to call those people, whether they be school teachers 
or nurse's aides or rookie policemen or road workers or whatever, 
anybody working ought to be eligible for the $500 tax credit. They are 
not on welfare.

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