Janice Schakowsky: “it seems as if we have hit a nerve here. We are supposedly talking about a bill that would make it easier to get checks…”

“it seems as if we have hit a nerve here. We are supposedly talking about a bill that would make it easier to get checks, and the Republicans are clearly embarrassed that there is a whole lot of people, in fact 12 million children, whose families are not going to get checks. They know darn well that that provision that would have sent the check was in the legislation in the Senate, and in a late-night deal that money was taken out. Here is one of the families. They live in my district. It is Maria, that is the mom, Alma and Elia Narvaez. They are not going to get a check. They are one of the 6.8 million families that thought they were going to get one, but they are not. Along with them, as has been pointed out, there are going to be a million children whose families were going to get checks of people in the military, our young men and women who went off to serve, the low-level private first class. They are not going to get a check. So it is not just an uproar from this side of the aisle; there is an uproar going on in the country right now. We read about it in the press, and we hear about it from our constituents. So who is getting the money? They are talking about it only goes to taxpayers and ask these people if they pay taxes, but who is getting the money? Well, let us look at the Bush cabinet. We are talking about Treasury Secretary John Snow.…”