[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14577-14578]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          NOTICE OF DISCHARGE PETITION ON CONCURRENT RECEIPTS

  (Mr. MARSHALL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARSHALL. Mr. Speaker, today I will sign a discharge petition 
that I bring to right a wrong that has been done to disabled American 
veterans for more than a century.
  In 1891, the United States of America imposed a tax on disabled 
veterans. We did not call it a tax. We called it a prohibition on 
concurrent receipts, something average Americans would not understand. 
Mr. Speaker, it is time to call the concurrent receipt prohibition what 
it is, the disabled veterans tax. It was wrong then; it is wrong now. 
It is time to end the disabled veterans tax.
  Mr. Speaker, for years the majority and the Members of this House 
have cosponsored House Resolution 303, which would end the disabled 
veterans tax; and for years, House Resolution 303 has been bottled up 
in committee just like campaign reform was bottled up in

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committee. The discharge petition process forced a vote on campaign 
finance reform. I am using that same process to force a vote on ending 
the disabled veterans tax.
  Mr. Speaker, at last count, 322 Members of this Congress have 
cosponsored House Resolution 303. Only 218 of these cosponsors must 
sign the discharge petition for it to be successful.

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