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




                  ALL-AMERICAN TAX RELIEF ACT OF 2003

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, last month this Congress, with the 
President's leadership, undertook to pass a tax relief measure that 
would get this economy moving again. Today, we will continue that good 
work with the All-American Tax Relief Act of 2003.
  While some come to this floor, as we even heard this morning, and 
suggest that Republicans do not care about children, about 6.5 million 
families and 12 million children that they say were left out of the 
refundable per child tax credit, the truth is, Mr. Speaker, as we all 
know, it was Republican leadership that saw to it that that tax cut was 
already in place, set to take effect in 2005; but we will accelerate 
that today.
  We will also encourage marriage by eliminating the marriage penalty. 
In the tax credit we will assist veterans and the heroes in space, we 
will do justice, we will love kids, and we will provide the 
compassionate Republican leadership that is so characteristic of this 
institution when we adopt the All-American Tax Relief Act today.

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