[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14585]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TAX 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. Madam Speaker, in December, and again in May, this House 
passed legislation to extend a set of expiring tax provisions providing 
billions of dollars in tax relief to millions of American families. 
That tax bill passed the House and has been stymied in the other body, 
where only two Republican Senators have stood up to their party's 
filibuster against these tax cuts. The $250 deduction for teachers is 
an important incentive for people who educate our children and buy 
classroom supplies out of their own pockets, but it has expired. Let me 
tell you who's suffering in the meantime: 124,000 teachers in Georgia 
cannot deduct $31 million in classroom supplies for our children; 
26,000 teachers in Nevada cannot deduct $6.6 million in expenses; 
113,000 teachers in North Carolina cannot deduct $28 million of 
classroom costs; and 314,000 teachers in Texas cannot deduct $81 
million in expenses to educate our children. More than 3.5 million 
elementary and secondary teachers cannot deduct more than $908 million 
they will spend this year out of pocket.
  A better educated child means a better job down the road. This tax 
deduction benefiting our Nation's teachers has been forgotten and cast 
aside by the Senate Republicans. I urge my colleagues on the other side 
of the aisle to contact their Senators and tell them that the Tax 
Extenders bill means jobs.

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