[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13330]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     MONUMENTAL DEFECT IN TAX BILL

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, as the ink is now 
drying on the tax bill of 2 weeks ago, and as the President and the 
Republican Party were looting the Treasury and the Social Security 
System of this Nation on behalf of the wealthiest people in this 
Nation, we now see there is a monumental defect in this bill in terms 
of its unfairness and its greed, and that is that millions of working 
families making wages between $10,500 a year and $26,000 a year will 
not get to participate in the increase and in the child tax credit. 
That means they will not get their $400 increase this summer that 
families with children are entitled to get under the tax bill.
  Why? Because Republicans simply decided that these people were not 
worthy of that tax cut, as though it was less expensive to raise their 
children or their children were not equal to the children of people 
making over $30,000 a year. An incredible act. An incredible act of 
greed. An incredible act of unfairness to hard-working families in this 
country.

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