[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14356-14357]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             EXTENDERS BILL

  (Mr. NEAL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NEAL. Mr. Speaker, in December and again in May, this House 
passed legislation to extend a popular set of expiring tax provisions 
providing billions of dollars in relief to millions of American 
families. This tax bill passed the House and has been stymied in the 
other body where only two Republican Senators have stood up against 
their party's filibuster for these tax cuts.
  The State sales tax deduction has provided parity for families living 
in States without an income tax.
  Let me tell you who's suffering: 600,000 families in Tennessee cannot 
deduct $1.3 billion of State sales taxes; 2 million families in Florida 
cannot deduct $3 billion of State taxes; 2.2 million families in Texas 
cannot deduct $4 billion in State sales taxes. Nationwide, more than 12 
million families

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cannot deduct $19.5 billion in State sales taxes.
  This deduction will spur purchases for cars, boats, and school 
supplies. But time is slipping away. We need to tell the other side to 
move these Senators on the tax extenders bill because it means jobs.

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