[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14577]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               TAKE UP THE SENATE-PASSED CHILD TAX CREDIT

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, it has been nearly 2 weeks since the 
embarrassing revelations that the $350 billion Republican tax cut left 
behind 6.5 million working families with incomes of $10,000 to $27,000 
a year. Not a penny to them and their 12 million children. They were 
stiffed to make room for more millionaire tax cuts.
  Last week, the Senate rushed to fix this. The President has endorsed 
what the Senate did; and if the Republican leaders here in the House 
really cared about these families and their kids, they would take up, 
pass the Senate bill today, send it down to the President tonight, get 
him to sign it; and they could get refund checks next month along with 
other families. But, no, that is not what they are going to do.
  They are going to turn these families into second-class citizens. If 
this bill passes today, they can file for the money next year. A lot of 
working families with parents in combat will be excluded under this 
bill. They will be left out altogether, but it really does one thing 
that they really want to do. It assures this bill will not become law 
because they really do not care about those 6.5 million families and 
their 12 million kids. They are low-income people. They do not care.

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