[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 111 (Thursday, July 31, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H6622]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          DEMOCRATS MADE TAX BILL BETTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES

  (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, I think all of us have a 
recollection of gathering at the family home and knowing that in the 
kitchen a stew is brewing. But that stew does not begin to get good 
until it gets stirred. Today we vote on a bill that the Democrats 
stirred and made well.
  I want to speak to those individuals that may be in fact not where 
our voice can be heard. Maybe they have a black and white television 
set, maybe they do not have access to the C-SPAN, but let me tell them, 
as they go to their jobs and make $20,000 a year, the Democrats have 
put together a tax bill that will help them.
  Or maybe they make $25,000. The Democrats have stirred the pot to 
help them, because they get a $500-a-year child tax credit, and we 
respect the fact that they are out working for a living. The Democrats 
also gave them $1,500 so they can start that college education in the 
Houston Community College, which I represent, or any community college 
around the Nation.
  The Democrats recognize that these working families they may not be 
somewhere advocating and lobbying, but we recognize that they make 
America work. And to the small businesses, we say we count on them too, 
because the Democrats give them a $1 million tax exemption that starts 
next year!
  The Democrats stirred the pot on this tax bill, and made it fair.

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