Mr. Leader, I think I am correct that every tax bill that we have passed over the last 3 years has been sunsetted. Therefore, pursuant to your rationale on child tax credit, in effect those bills would be raising taxes, sometimes in 2010, sometimes a little before, and sometimes a little after, 2006, 2007 some sunset. How does that rationale differ from the rationale being applied to the child tax credit?
Steny Hoyer: “Mr. Leader, I think I am correct that every tax bill that we have passed over the last 3 years has been sunsetted.…”
On the recordOctober 21, 2003
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Discussing the implications of sunset provisions in tax bills and the child tax credit.
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