Zachary Nunn: “tonight we have the opportunity to deliver on a promise made to the American people on border security, energy…”

“tonight we have the opportunity to deliver on a promise made to the American people on border security, energy independence, and tax cuts for working-class families. Now, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, many of them millionaires themselves, may bemoan what it may do. I promise them this. For folks back home in Iowa, this is a working-class tax cut. I spoke to an Iowa mom, Sarah Curry, who used her child tax credit to help buy a new water heater for her family when it went out last winter. Sarah was also able to get speech therapy lessons for her son. I talked to Jolene Riessen, an Iowa farmer, whose sons were able to continue her family's legacy of a family farm because she didn't have a death tax cut that would have allowed a foreign country to buy their family's centuries-old farm. In fact, the average household will see an increase of $5,000 in real income that goes straight back into our economy. That, my friends, is how we not only grow the economy but pay down the national deficit. This mechanism is something the CBO apparently doesn't understand with over $1 trillion in growth. Mr. Speaker, I support this bill. The American people demand this bill.”