[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 5994]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TAX BENEFITS AND RELIEFS

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, today is the dreaded April 15, and I, like 
millions and millions of Americans, have filed my returns and those for 
my mother and others.
  This Congress has tried to provide and has provided relief for 
middle-class taxpayers and middle-income taxpayers and extended those 
tax benefits. We have also passed relief for the people who pay the 
alternative minimum tax.
  But with the stimulus package, we provide moneys for people to get a 
refund. But to get that refund, people have to file their taxes. Be 
sure and file your taxes, and if your income is $75,000 or less or 
$150,000 for a couple, you can get your stimulus relief package passed 
by this Congress.
  We wish our moneys weren't going to rebuild Baghdad and for war 
efforts, but with the work of this Congress, one day we will have 
peace, we won't be spending the money in Baghdad, and we will be 
spending the money in America to rebuild our infrastructure.

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