[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21019]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




ANNOUNCEMENT OF INTENTION TO OFFER MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES ON H.R. 
        1308, TAX RELIEF, SIMPLIFICATION, AND EQUITY ACT OF 2003

  Mr. COOPER. Madam Speaker, subject to rule XXII, clause 7(c), I 
hereby announce my intention to offer a motion to instruct on H.R. 
1308, the Child Tax Credit bill. The form of the motion is as follows:
  Madam Speaker, I move that the managers on the part of the House in 
the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the House 
amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 1308 be instructed as 
follows:
  Number one, the House conferees shall be instructed to include in the 
conference report the provision of the Senate amendment (not included 
in the House amendment) that provides immediate payments to taxpayers 
receiving an additional credit by reason of the bill in the same manner 
as other taxpayers were entitled to immediate payments under the Jobs 
and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.
  Number two, the House conferees shall be instructed to include in the 
conference report the provision of the Senate amendment (again not 
included in the House amendment) that provides families of military 
personnel serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other combat zones around 
the world, a child tax credit based on the earnings of the individuals 
who are serving in the combat zone.
  Number three, the House conferees shall be instructed to include in 
the conference report all of the other provisions of the Senate 
amendment and shall not report back a conference report that includes 
additional tax benefits which are not offset by other provisions.
  Number four, to the maximum extent possible within the scope of the 
conference, the House conferees shall be instructed to include in the 
conference report other tax benefits for military personnel and the 
families of the astronauts who died in the Columbia shuttle disaster.
  Number five, and finally, the House conferees shall, as soon as 
practicable after the adoption of this motion, meet in open session 
with Senate conferees, and the House conferees shall file a conference 
report consistent with the preceding provisions of this instruction, 
not later than the second legislative day after adoption of this 
motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's notice will appear in the 
Record at this point.

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