[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8586]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                TAX CUTS

  (Mr. BOCCIERI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOCCIERI. Madam Speaker, to my colleagues here on the floor, give 
me a break. That's exactly what the American taxpayer has asked for, 
and that's what this Congress has delivered.
  Over the last 3 months that I have been here in the Congress, here in 
the United States Capitol, we have made permanent the $800 Making Work 
Pay tax cut for American middle-class families. We've expanded the 
child tax credit. We've made the investment into alternative energy, 
the tax cuts that are going to help grow green energy jobs here in the 
United States and in my district in Ohio. We've made those part of our 
package that we've rolled out.
  This stimulus package and economic recovery bill that was passed by 
this Congress provides the largest tax cut for American middle-class 
families and for small businesses in this country. This was the right 
step. We can already begin to see the signs of economic recovery on the 
horizon.
  We've got a long way to go, but the package we introduced and passed 
in this Congress is going to be the right track, and we need to put our 
country back on track. That's what the American taxpayers have asked 
for, and that's what we're giving them, a break.

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