[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5521]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                TAX DAY

  (Ms. CHU asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, Republicans want Americans to believe that they 
are the party of tax cuts. Sure, they are--tax cuts for the rich. In 
these tough times, their brand of tax relief wouldn't help Sue and 
John, working parents who are raising three kids and who are trying to 
make ends meet.
  Yet this Congress knows that America's future can't be based on huge 
tax cuts for the wealthy. We have to give real tax relief to real 
working Americans, and that is just what we've done. We've done it for 
95 percent of working families, saving them up to $800 a year. We've 
done it by making it easier for young families to buy their first 
homes, saving up to $8,000, and we've done it by making it easier for 
parents to save up to $2,500 to pay for college. This Congress has 
passed 25 different tax cuts, saving American families over $800 
billion, and more relief is on the way.
  The overheated rhetoric of the minority is not based on reality. By 
any measure, taxes are lower today than they were under their 
leadership.

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