[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 4, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H4882]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         FUND CHILD TAX CREDIT

  (Mr. RYAN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask this Congress to 
fund the child tax credit. For 6 million families, it would only cost 
$3.5 billion. We have the $3.5 billion, but we want to give it to the 
top 1 percent. All we would have to do is take the top tax bracket and 
instead of cutting it down to 35 percent, cut it down to 35.3 percent, 
and we would have enough money to give the child tax credit to working 
families, single parents with children, single mothers trying to raise 
their children.
  Mr. Speaker, we have enough time in this Congress to honor Sammy Sosa 
and his corked bat, but we do not have enough time to honor the 
children in single families in this Congress.

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