[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5469]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            RECENT TAX CUTS

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, today is Tax Day, of course, and that is 
somewhat of a dreaded day in many people's minds. But the fact is in 
the past year we have had more tax cuts than almost any time in our 
Nation's history. But with President Obama and this Congress, they have 
been directed to the lower working class people, the lower income 
people, and not the top 2 or 3 percent, as happened during the Bush 
administration.
  President Obama stood at the podium behind me in his State of the 
Union address and said, ``Now let me repeat, we cut taxes. We cut taxes 
for 95 percent of working families. We cut taxes for small businesses. 
We cut taxes for first-time homebuyers. We cut taxes for parents trying 
to care for their children. We cut taxes for 8 million Americans paying 
for college. We put $300 billion worth of tax cuts into people's 
pockets so there was demand and businesses had customers.'' I am proud 
to have supported the President in these measures.
  A third of the stimulus package, the ARRA, was tax cuts. It is 
something the American people don't realize because of the false 
rhetoric that has been spread throughout this country. I appreciate the 
work of this Congress and President Obama, and I thank him for his 
leadership.

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