[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14257]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                WORKING FAMILIES TAX CREDIT ACT OF 2003

  (Mr. MICHAUD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICHAUD. Mr. Speaker, the recent tax bill carelessly neglects 12 
million children in America's low-income working families by cutting 
them out of the child tax credit plan.
  I asked the House Committee on Government Reform to investigate what 
this would mean to the State of Maine. They found that in my home 
district, 21,000 working families will receive no benefit. These are 
families who work hard, pay taxes, play by the rules, and who were 
still left out in the cold.
  Cutting these people out was just plain wrong. That is why I have 
introduced the Working Family Tax Credit Act of 2003, along with my 
good friend, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel). This bill will 
fix the problem and assure that all working families get some benefit. 
In a tax bill that gives $90 billion of its tax cut exclusively to 
millionaires, making sure that working families who make $25,000 a year 
should be able to get some tax relief is the least this Congress can 
do.

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