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Brad Miller: I am staying up tonight, as I stayed up last week, because I think it is important that we adopt a child tax credit. I…

On the recordJuly 23, 2003
I am staying up tonight, as I stayed up last week, because I think it is important that we adopt a child tax credit. I certainly knew that we could not afford it. We are digging a deep deficit hole that is going to drag down our economy for the foreseeable future and is going to destroy our ability to do the things that really will help working- and middle-class families, like providing a decent education, like reforming our health care system which is just not working for most families and is not working for American business, like making sure that Social Security and the Medicare system are solvent, particularly when my generation starts to retire.
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Brad Miller
Democratic · North Carolina

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Discussing the importance of adopting a child tax credit and concerns about the national deficit.

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