[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13079]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                              RENEWAL WEEK

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, we talk a lot in this body about achieving 
the American dream, but even in the most prosperous economic expansion 
in recent history, many of our fellow Americans still struggle to make 
it out of poverty.
  That is why the Renewal Alliance, a bicameral group of legislators 
here in Congress, seeks to highlight both civic and legislative 
solutions to the plights of so many low-income Americans who 
desperately want to make it. They want safe communities and they want 
honest jobs.
  I want to encourage my colleagues to join the many members of the 
Renewal Alliance this week, Renewal Week, and to renew our efforts to 
pass legislation critical to improving our low-income communities.
  The American Community Renewal Act, the Charity Tax Credit, and 
education scholarship opportunities all combine to use a market-driven 
and even private sector approach to bring about real hope and 
opportunity through tax incentives for investment, for capital 
formation, for community reinvestment, and for contributing to 
charities of our choice, as well as opportunity scholarships. We reward 
what works.
  Join us in working for our Nation's low-income communities.

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