[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3412]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      REFUNDABLE CHILD TAX CREDIT

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, each year, billions of U.S. 
taxpayer dollars are wasted due to abuse of the $1,000 refundable child 
tax credit. Instead of hitting up taxpayers for even more taxes, 
Washington needs to go after these billions of dollars that are 
fraudulently wasted.
  It's time to end this sham. That's why I have reintroduced 
commonsense legislation, H.R. 556, that stops this abuse by requiring 
tax filers to provide their Social Security number in order to receive 
this tax credit, just like we do for the Earned Income Tax Credit.
  Congress' nonpartisan tax scorekeeper, the Joint Committee on 
Taxation, has found that my bill would save taxpayers an estimated 
$24.4 billion over the next 10 years. With the dire need to get our 
fiscal house in order, this simple, commonsense fix can go a long way 
toward protecting precious taxpayer dollars by stamping out waste, 
fraud, and abuse. It's time to get this done.

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