[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5583]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               TAX RELIEF

  (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, let me really tell you how to 
spell relief: a tax plan for teachers, police officers, firefighters, 
nurses, waiters, waitresses, bus drivers, a tax plan for working 
people. There is something that is very curious about the Republican 
statistics and analysis of why they want to give 67 percent of their 
tax plan to the wealthy. They reject the Treasury Department's 
independent analysis, the Treasury Department that serviced Presidents 
Bush, Nixon, and President Reagan, which says that categorically the 
Republican plan has a fairness problem.
  America, listen to this debate. It is not frivolous. It is real. If 
you want a tax plan that addresses a child tax credit for working 
people who they say do not pay taxes, but yet when you take someone who 
works every day, they might be working for the janitorial service but 
they are working every day paying payroll taxes or FICA taxes, you know 
what we mean. They do not get a child tax credit. Spell relief with a 
Democratic tax plan for nurses, working people all over America.

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