[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 22, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5500]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        PROVIDE TAX RELIEF TO THE FAMILIES WHO NEED IT THE MOST

  (Ms. HOOLEY of Oregon asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HOOLEY of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, we need to pass a tax relief 
package that works for working Americans. By the way, the method of 
calculating income by the Treasury Department was indeed devised by the 
Reagan administration.
  The tax reconciliation bill denies tax relief to millions of working 
families who pay Federal taxes but who earn less than $30,000 a year. 
These folks would be unable to claim the $500-per-child tax credit even 
though they pay Federal taxes.
  Mr. Speaker, we are talking about nurses, teachers, junior police 
officers who are trying to raise their families on limited incomes. We 
are talking about small business owners, family farmers, hourly wage 
earners. We are talking about people who put a significant percentage 
of their salaries toward paying Federal payroll taxes. We are talking 
about people who need tax relief. We are talking about people who get 
nothing under this tax plan.
  Let us not pass up this golden opportunity to provide tax relief to 
families that need it most. It is time to restore the full $500-per-
child credit to working families.

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