[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29259]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR THE WEALTHY

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, well, the Christmas tree is lit and 
decorated on the west front of the Capitol; but meanwhile here in the 
House Chamber, the Republican elves are toiling on the gifts to be put 
under the tree for the American people.
  For the wealthiest, the investors who earn over $300,000 a year, 
fabulous gifts, huge new extensions of tax cuts. Unfortunately for 
seniors, working families, and the poor, there is nothing but a box of 
rhetoric. They even have to forego the usual lump of coal because it is 
too expensive with the Bush failed energy policy.
  Even worse, the tax cut for the wealthiest among us, those who earn 
over $300,000 a year, will be paid for by cuts in student financial, 
food and nutrition assistance, school lunches, Medicaid care for poor 
people. The list kind of goes on and on. Merry Christmas.

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