Xavier Becerra: “Mr. Speaker, for my colleagues and the American public that perhaps have not quite figured out what is going on here…”

“Mr. Speaker, for my colleagues and the American public that perhaps have not quite figured out what is going on here when we are trying to help working families through a child tax credit, H.R. 1308, I believe, boils down to two things, and probably the best way to describe it is to remind folks about the very common joke we hear about how many people does it take to screw in a light bulb, except in this case, we have to ask how many people and how much money does it take to correct the $3.5 billion omission for working families through a child tax credit. The punch line, as funny as it may sound, is $80 billion, is what we are being told by our colleagues and friends on the other side of the aisle that it takes to correct the $3.5 billion omission: $80 billion. And if it is not a joke, then it is either a very smart, some might say sneaky, others might say sinister, ploy, to try to sneak in all of these other tax cuts for very wealthy American families into what is a good package for working families...”