[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17465]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      PROVIDING A CHILD TAX CREDIT

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, in yesterday's testimony, Secretary of 
Defense Donald Rumsfeld noted that our reconstruction costs, providing 
health care, education, transportation and housing needs in Iraq have 
cost the American taxpayers $2.3 billion, and projected over the year, 
$2.3 billion, that is equal to the amount we could provide in a child 
tax credit to the 12 million children, the 6\1/2\ million Americans who 
were left out of the tax cut the last time we provided a tax cut.
  In the middle of July, the first set of tax cuts will begin to hit 
the mailboxes all over America, and yet 12 million children of American 
families, 6\1/2\ million families of working parents who get up every 
day to provide for their children and do right will not get a tax cut. 
Now we are going to be providing the same amount of dollars for Iraq's 
reconstruction, for their housing, their health care, their education, 
for their children's future.
  I would hope that before we go home for our August break and our 
summer break to be with our families, our constituents and our 
neighbors that we would provide these working American families the 
same types of educational opportunities, the same type of economic 
security, that tax cut and an economic interest we are providing Iraq.

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