On the recordOctober 23, 2001
I am hopeful that our distinguished chairman, who has done a very good job on our ESEA conference, will be open and amenable to including the forgiveness, not only to those who have died, but the remaining spouses, due to their hero status and due to their financial duress. Mr. Speaker, I understand that a preliminary estimate from CBO might be in the range of $500,000 to cover all of the firefighters' and police officers' spouses and about $3 million estimate overall. Now, that is a preliminary estimate. We are going to be looking at a tax bill, debating a tax bill next week that has $159 billion 10-year cost. I think $500,000 and $3 million is something that we can do for these families.
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