Peter Roskam: “I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis).”

What we did with it is we doubled it so that the family tax credit is now doubled. So, you know, when folks say, ``Well, I don't like this tax plan,'' really? You don't like doubling the child tax credit? So there was very much an…

That is right. So, to the gentleman's point, a deduction is a decrease in a taxable liability; a credit is a credit. Once the tax is calculated, the credit is an amount that comes off of that tax liability, so it is a very significant…

I want to thank Mr. Levin for his observations about this bill, that it is created in a spirit of bipartisanship, and I appreciate his support for it. I think it is interesting, just a little bit of a point of clarification, because we…

Briefly, the Roskam amendment does the following: It recognizes that my constituency, and I think a lot of others, want the benefits of living near a large international airport but not as much of the burden. Here is the backstory about…