[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 178 (Friday, December 9, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S7017]
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                         LEGISLATION OBJECTION

  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, in accordance with my policy to put a 
notice in the Congressional Record whenever I place a hold on 
legislation, I object to any unanimous consent request to pass H.R. 
6438, a bill to extend the waiver of limitations with respect to 
excluding from gross income amounts received by wrongfully incarcerated 
individuals. I object not because I disagree with the policy underlying 
this proposal--in fact, I support it--but because the Senate cannot 
pass this singular bill ignore the long list of other tax proposals 
that are outstanding or expiring at end of this Congress; among them 
clean energy and infrastructure incentives that create good-paying 
jobs, an education incentive that makes a college degree more 
affordable, provisions to make homes more affordable to the middle 
class and protect struggling homeowners from a tax bill if they 
negotiate mortgage debt relief.

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