[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 27]
[House]
[Page 35821]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     TAX RELIEF, NOT TAX INCREASES

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, last week the majority 
forced a vote on a faulty fix to the alternative minimum tax, AMT, that 
raises taxes elsewhere. Consequently, this bill had no chance of ever 
becoming law, and everyone knew it. The Senate resoundingly rejected 
the tax increase legislation the week before and instead passed 
legislation that offers a clean fix of the AMT. The majority in the 
House knew this, and yet they chose to pursue a political statement 
rather than a solution.
  Instead of getting down to business and working with the Senate, 
House Republicans and President Bush, the majority leadership in the 
House has failed to repeal a tax that unnecessarily threatens 23 
million Americans. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has already made it 
clear that the delay in passing a fix or a complete repeal will cause 
delays in tax refunds for 50 million Americans. This is the price of 
inaction. The American people should not have to pay that price. The 
majority needs to bring a clean AMT fix to the floor, and not another 
tax increase.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th.

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