Kenny Hulshof: “As we were awaiting this special order, I know there were at least half a dozen colleagues on the other side of the…”

“As we were awaiting this special order, I know there were at least half a dozen colleagues on the other side of the aisle who, again, were trying to turn this whole debate into class warfare. The facts are simple. Mark Twain, his birth place is Hannibal, MO, which is in my district, I think Mark Twain once said that ``There are lies. There are damn lies. And then there are statistics.'' Rather than just give some vague percentages with bar charts, what I have got here, Mr. Speaker, is not on a percentage but the actual amount of money, of tax relief that is going back to certain income classes. As my colleagues can see, if we will consider for those under $20,000 up to $75,000, clearly almost $90 billion in tax relief; 76 percent of this tax relief package is going to those who make less than $75,000 of annual income. In fact, if you want to take a look at the amount of relief going to those under $20,000, over $5.5 billion. And those at the upper end of over $200,000 adjusted gross income get $1.4 billion. Clearly, we are trying to focus and target the relief to those on the lower end of the scale.”