[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 4, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H4881]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              LOW-INCOME AMERICANS ENTITLED TO TAX RELIEF

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, Mark Twain said that humans were the only 
species that would feel embarrassment, or needed to. That is an 
appropriate quote today when many of my Republican colleagues are 
terribly embarrassed because they got caught with their hand in the 
cookie jar giving over $90,000 tax relief to millionaires, and to 
children of families who earn less than $26,000, gave them zero tax 
relief for the child deduction.
  This is scandalous, and many of my good Republican friends are 
terribly embarrassed that they have been caught in this fashion. But 
now I call on my Republican colleagues to admit that they made a 
mistake and fix the problem. I am told that the majority leader, the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay), said that people who earn $26,000 do 
not pay taxes. Excuse me, they pay property taxes, they pay withholding 
taxes, they pay sales taxes, and they are entitled to fair treatment.
  Mr. Speaker, we cannot excuse the inexcusable. I am calling for my 
Republican friends to call the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) to fix 
this problem today.

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