[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 102 (Thursday, July 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5409]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    NO TAX BENEFIT UNDER REPUBLICAN PLAN FOR MIDDLE-INCOME 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, the real question this morning 
is, what do the schoolteacher, the police officer, the firefighter, the 
bus driver, and the single working mother have in common? No tax 
benefit under the Republican tax plan.
  Many will say that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Let me say, 
not so. The Republicans have absented themselves from the 1994 Contract 
on America, which says that they would give a tax refund to those who 
pay income tax, those who receive an earned income tax credit, and 
those who pay payroll taxes. Not so.
  They all signed it. They have all forgotten. Now they call the 
schoolteacher, the police officer, the firefighter, the bus driver, and 
the working mother, they are on welfare, because they do not want to 
give them a child tax credit.
  Absence does not make the heart grow fonder for the working people of 
America. The Democratic alternative recognizes when you go to work 
every day as a bus driver, a schoolteacher, a single working mother, 
you deserve a tax credit for your child. That is the plan that is for 
all working Americans.

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