[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13477]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak on a matter of urgent 
concern. Today we put the House on notice that business as usual will 
stop until this body restores tax relief for millions of working low-
income Americans.
  We act and we speak out today because of a simple act of treachery: 
Congress taking from hard-working poor people to give to the rich, an 
act that abandoned millions of families and their children, 12 million 
children, and a tax bill that will cost $1 trillion over the next 
decade, that will give 184,000 millionaires a tax break of $93,000. The 
administration and this Republican majority could not find $3.5 billion 
to help one out of every six children.
  These millionaires must somehow have greater moral value than the 
working poor, people who are scheduled to get nothing in this bill. Mr. 
Speaker, this is the most unconscionable legislation ever passed in 
this body with no economic justification and no moral justification; 
and we are through doing business as usual in this body until this gets 
fixed.

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