ECONOMIC GROWTH AND TAX RELIEF RECONCILIATION ACT

Amendments

Taxation: make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), H5502 [18JN]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), consideration (H. Res. 281), H5482 [18JN]

Articles and editorials

Estate Tax Compromise Sought—House Set To Pass Repeal, but Supporters Know Senate Votes Aren't There, H5496 [18JN]

Bills and resolutions

Medicare: freeze and repeal portions of the tax reduction and apply savings to a comprehensive outpatient prescription drug benefit (see H.R. 2514), H5551 [18JN]

National security: suspend phase-in of additional tax reductions while the U.S. is in a state of war or on high military alert (see H.R. 436), H241 [29JA]

Pensions: make pension and individual retirement arrangement provisions permanent (see S. 95), S37 [7JA]

Taxation: accelerate and make child tax credit permanent (see S. 92), S37 [7JA]

———accelerate and make lowest tax bracket permanent (see S. 94), S37 [7JA]

———accelerate individual income tax rate cuts and make all tax cuts permanent (see H.R. 210), H59 [7JA]

———increase and repeal sunset imposed on modifications to the child tax credit provisions (see H.R. 2007), H3761 [7MY]

———make benefits permanent (see H.R. 1612), H2820 [3AP]

———make individual income tax rate reductions permanent (see H.R. 861), H704 [13FE]

———make marriage penalty relief provisions permanent (see S. 120), S132 [9JA]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (see H.R. 8), H5364 [12JN] (see H.R. 57), H53 (see H.R. 139), H56 (see H.R. 158), H57 [7JA]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), consideration (see H. Res. 281), H5467 [17JN]

———repeal sunset on expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs (see S. 1931), S15573 [22NO] (see H.R. 336), H169 [27JA] (see H.R. 1057), H1514 [4MR]

———repeal sunset on increase of dependent care tax credit and make the credit refundable (see H.R. 493), H244 [29JA]

———repeal sunset provisions (see S. 96), S37 [7JA] (see H.R. 407), H217 [28JA]

Letters

Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act: David J. Frederickson, National Farmers Union, H5508 [18JN]

———National Automobile Dealers Association, E1306 [19JN]

Remarks in House

National security: suspend phase-in of additional tax reductions while the U.S. is in a state of war or on high military alert (H.R. 436), E101 [29JA]

Taxation: make repeal of estate taxes permanent, H64 [8JA]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), H5448 [17JN], H5472, H5473, H5492-H5514 [18JN], H5701-H5705 [23JN], E1306 [19JN], E1313 [20JN], E1357, E1358 [26JN]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), consideration (H. Res. 281), H5475-H5491 [18JN]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 57), H1442 [27FE]

Remarks in Senate

Taxation: accelerate elimination of the marriage penalty, S5288 [11AP]

———accelerate estate tax repeal, S3966-S3973 [19MR], S4109 [20MR], S4508 [27MR]

———make marriage penalty relief provisions permanent (S. 120), S154 [9JA]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), S8260 [19JN], S8315 [20JN]

———repeal sunset on expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs (S. 1931), S15573 [22NO]

———repeal sunset provisions (S. 96), S225 [13JA]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 8, Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 281) (H. Rept. 108-157), H5467 [17JN]

Results

Vote on Conrad/Kennedy/Johnson amendment on accelerating elimination of the marriage penalty in H.R. 1836, provisions (2001), S5288 [11AP]

Texts of

H. Res. 281, consideration of H.R. 8, Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act, H5475 [18JN]

H.R. 8, Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act, H5492 [18JN]

S. 120, Marriage Penalty Relief Act, S154 [9JA]

S. 1931, repeal sunset on expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs, S15573 [22NO]