Jerry Moran: “I have come to Congress with a firm belief that we need to be responsible in our budget efforts and that we need to take…”

“I have come to Congress with a firm belief that we need to be responsible in our budget efforts and that we need to take aggressive steps toward a process in paying down the national debt. But this issue does not wait. Fairness does not wait for another day. We have for too long penalized those who have chosen to be married in this country. We have chosen for too long to penalize those whose families suffer. In Kansas alone, 61,000 people in my Congressional District are impacted by this unfair penalty, this unfair Tax Code. And of that, it happens to impact those of very modest and middle-class incomes. The people who are impacted in Kansas earn between $20,000 and $75,000. We are talking about $1,400, on the average, that they pay more simply because they chose to be married and to have families. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this rule and encourage its adoption and encourage today, later in the day, that we end this unfairness that has existed too long in the Tax Code.”