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




                      BUSINESS AS USUAL WILL STOP

  (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, I want to join my 
colleague, the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), in saying 
that it would be unconscionable for the House to continue to do 
business as usual when the voices and the needs of millions of hard-
working American families have been closed out of the people's House. 
Without being able to participate in the final negotiations over the 
tax bill, with Vice President Cheney in the room, the Republican 
leaders of the Senate, the Republican leaders of the House, they 
decided to simply exclude some 6 million families, some 12 million 
children who would be entitled to the $400 increase in the child tax 
credit.
  That means that this summer those families on behalf of their 
children, those families that go to work every day would not get a $400 
check as will millions of other American families on behalf of their 
children. But this administration and this Congress closed those voices 
out of the debate on the tax bill. They have quietly cut a bill to 
exclude the Senate amendment that was there to protect those families 
and to protect their children, and to help them educate their children 
and provide health care for their children.
  No, we cannot continue to do business as usual when this Republican 
leadership and the administration cuts millions of Americans out of the 
Democratic system.

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