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Taxpayer First Act of 2019

Floor Speech

Date: April 9, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Taxes

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Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I want to commend Chairman Lewis and Ranking Member Kelly for their tremendous work on this bill.

I feel like today might be one of my best days in Congress, because I had the opportunity a moment ago to talk about helping individuals who are unemployed.

Now, we are talking about helping individuals with their income tax preparation, individuals who might be low income; individuals who have difficulty reading and writing and understanding; individuals who are disabled; individuals who are poverty stricken, people who make less than 250 percent of what is known as the poverty level in this country.

I feel good because I have spent much of the day talking about helping those individuals in our country and in our society who need help the most. It is a great bill, and I am proud to support it.

I thank all of those operations in Chicago, the Center for Economic Progress, the City-Wide Tax Assistance Program via Ladder Up, the United Way, and all the rest of those agencies in the city of Chicago that are helping low-income people with their income tax.

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