[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 11, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H5179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     EXPANDING THE CHILD TAX CREDIT

  (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, can I read the roll: Alabama, 
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, 
D.C., Texas, Florida, Georgia. And it goes on and on; 19 million 
children left out in the cold.
  Mr. Speaker, why can we not be a cooperative and collaborative 
Congress that works on behalf of the American people? Why is it that 
the President has made a statement this morning or yesterday saying 
support the Senate bill? What kind of leadership says that the 
President's representative who has asked this Congress to collaborate 
to provide a tax credit refund for working families, Ari Fleischer, 
someone says, ``He does not have a vote''?
  Mr. Speaker, the American people have a vote. I frankly do not hear 
those making $150,000 clamoring for this tax credit refund for children 
but I do hear the working families who make $26,000, who get up early 
in the morning, who pay payroll taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes 
saying, give us a simple break. Allow the Senate bill to go forward, 
allow the President to sign it. Let us work on behalf of the American 
people and not special interests.

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