[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19188]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    STICKING IT TO WORKING FAMILIES

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the columnist Tom Oliphant wrote yesterday 
in the Boston Globe a column entitled ``Sticking It to Working 
Families,'' which is exactly what the All American Tax Relief Act, 
which was just past in this House, has done.
  Why do I say that? That is because what both the White House and the 
Republican House leadership refused to do was to reduce the income 
threshold for the child tax credit to $10,000. That level has gone up 
to $11,000. It means that people who are making $10,000 a year will no 
longer be eligible for a child tax credit. That is 4.3 million 
families. It is 9 million children who will be denied the child tax 
credit. These are working families.
  The House Republican leadership has said this is a welfare program. 
That is the kind of disdain that they show for working families.
  What is going to happen to these families is their taxes, yes, are 
going to increase, all under the guise of an All American Tax Relief 
Act. It is wrong. These families, these children, deserve better. That 
is what this House should be about.

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