[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13525-13526]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            TAX RELIEF BILL

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I just want to say a word about 
what happened before we went into recess, the fact that we voted on a 
bill that provided hundreds of billions of

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dollars of tax relief, but not to the people who needed it the most.
  In fact, we now see that about one-tenth of 1 percent of the very 
wealthiest Americans receive approximately as much tax benefit as the 
90 percent of Americans with incomes of $95,000 or less. But the most 
outrageous thing about this tax cut was something we did not know. It 
took the newspapers, and I saw it in The New York Times a week later, 
that revealed that we actually eliminated the child tax credit for 
families with incomes below $26,000, the working poor, the families who 
needed tax cuts the most.
  I mean, I cannot believe that this Congress did that to working-class 
families and did not even give us the opportunity to debate it. I hope 
that there is a groundswell of public opposition to what we do and we 
can reverse this. The Democratic Party is determined to do so.

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