[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5632]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TAX RELIEF FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES

  (Ms. EDWARDS of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. EDWARDS of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, today, as Americans put the 
finishing touches on their tax returns, they'll see that Congress and 
this President have enacted tax cuts that benefit middle class and 
working class families. Despite the echo chamber of right wing 
misinformation, some of it we've heard here today, Mr. Speaker, we can 
finally set the record straight. For 8 long years, the Republicans put 
the interests of the wealthy few above the interests of middle class 
families, and they gave massive tax cuts for only a few Americans, sent 
the national debt soaring, and they had no way to pay for it.
  In this last year we've cut $800 billion in taxes focused on helping 
middle class families and small businesses. Americans are getting jobs, 
they're buying homes or a car, and they're sending their children to 
college.
  As Bruce Bartlett, adviser under Presidents Reagan and George H.W. 
Bush recently noted, ``Federal taxes are very considerably lower by 
every measure since Obama became President.''
  And so while the other guys stand with the banks and insurance 
companies and CEOs, we'll continue to stand on the side of working 
families.

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