[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 20461-20462]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              REVERSE ROBIN HOOD IS CONTINUING BY CONGRESS

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, after the attacks, we rushed through $16 
billion for the airlines, and we were told there was not time to take 
care of the workers. Their time would come soon. We were promised maybe 
the next week or the week after we would help the workers. Well, soon 
is not here yet.
  Today, a $100 billion so-called economic stimulus package, and guess 
what, $25 billion up front to repeal a loophole closing tax provision, 
$25 billion for the largest corporations in

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America in a retroactive tax cut to 1986, paid for by FICA taxes, paid 
for by the working people of this country, coming out of the Social 
Security Trust Fund going straight to corporate coffers.
  Mr. Speaker, guess what, they do not have to give a penny to the 
workers or provide assistance to the millions of Americans that have 
lost their jobs. This is in the form of a so-called economic stimulus. 
Reverse Robin Hood is continuing here on the floor under the guise of 
helping the American people and the economy.
  This has to stop. Let us give workers help with their health 
insurance. Let us stop dumping money into the corporate coffers.

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