Providing for Consideration of H.R. 3996, Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007

PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3996, TEMPORARY TAX RELIEF ACT OF 2007 -- (House of Representatives - November 09, 2007)

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Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Temporary Tax Relief Act.

This is sound legislation. It will provide millions of hardworking middle-class families with the tax cuts that they need. We all know this bill will protect over 23 million middle-class families from the encroaching alternative minimum tax. In my home State of Connecticut, failing to act on the AMT would mean new taxes on almost 400,000 households including 67,000 in my district.

Along with addressing the AMT, I want to commend Chairman Rangel for including in the bill a long overdue expansion of the child tax credit. Last year minimum-wage families working full-time were not eligible for the tax credit, excluding almost 7 million children, most of them infants and toddlers.

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Military families, fighting and dying for the United States, were not eligible.

With this bill, we get back to the intent of the child tax credit, providing relief to the working-class families that need it most; 2.9 million additional children will be eligible for the tax credit, and the families of 10 million others will receive larger refunds. We have an opportunity today to provide tax relief to 23 million middle-class families. Let us not fail them today, and let us not fail our children.

This bill represents the values of this Nation and its priorities. I urge my colleagues to vote for the rule and pass this legislation.

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