[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H5583-H5584]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   AMERICANS WERE PROMISED TAX RELIEF

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, talk about little shame or no shame, I rise 
today to remind my Republican colleagues including the last speaker and 
others this morning of a promise that they made to the American people 
just a few short years ago; do they remember? The Contract With 
America, item No. 5 of that contract promised a $500 per child credit 
to all, all of America's families who work and who pay taxes.
  Now my Republican colleagues want to deny the child tax credit to 
millions of families who earn less than $30,000 a year. These parents 
are carpenters, dental assistants, rookie police officers, kindergarten 
teachers, but the Republicans call them welfare recipients.
  These are working parents. They are not on welfare. They work hard 
every

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single day and they pay taxes, usually more in payroll taxes than in 
income taxes, and more in payroll taxes, I would imagine, than the 
wealthiest one 1 or 2 percent that our Republican colleagues would like 
to reward.
  Democrats believe these are the parents who deserve the tax relief. 
Remember, my friends, the contract that you signed.

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