John Shaw: “Mr. Speaker, I hear my friend from New York talking about deficits. There is one deficit that he did not talk about, and…”

“Mr. Speaker, I hear my friend from New York talking about deficits. There is one deficit that he did not talk about, and that is family deficits, the deficit where so many families are struggling and trying to do the right thing, go to work, come home, take care of their kids, and this bill addresses that. I am sure that there are thousands or tens of thousands in the gentleman's district that are going to profit greatly from this bill, and maybe live a little better because of what is in this bill. I think that we need to have a good debate over the issues and not sarcasm. When you get sarcasm involved and talking in broad terms, you are covering over what is in this bill. I would like to go down a few of the provisions in there. It extends family tax relief provisions through 2010. What does that mean? Well, the marriage penalty relief. Everybody is for the marriage penalty relief. I would hope so. The expanded 10 percent income tax bracket. If this does not pass, those brackets are going to go back up, and those are the lowest income tax brackets that we have. The $1,000 tax credit for children. This is tremendously important for working young families. It provides assistance for military families in combat.”