[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10630]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP'S MISPLACED PRIORITIES

  (Mr. EDWARDS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, American military families will be 
disappointed to find out what the House Republican leadership is doing 
today. Unbelievably, during a time of war, they will pass this 
afternoon generous tax cuts for Members of Congress but put a freeze on 
military children's education funding and a freeze on the most 
important military housing improvement program in American history.
  It is shameful that the House Republican leadership is saying that we 
can afford to give Members of Congress and families making up to 
$250,000 a year a new $1,000 tax credit per child, but we must freeze 
education funding for our military kids and put a 1-year hold on 
military housing improvements for 24,452 military families.
  The House Republican leadership's misplaced and self-serving 
priorities make a mockery of the principle of shared sacrifice during 
time of war. Military families, and Americans who respect their 
sacrifices, have a right to be outraged.

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