Rob Andrews: “I rise in favor of this tax reduction bill here tonight. I do so thinking about the American families and the families…”

“I rise in favor of this tax reduction bill here tonight. I do so thinking about the American families and the families in my district who sit around the kitchen table on a Friday night, and they take out their checkbook, and after they write their check for their mortgage and their property taxes and their credit card bill and their health insurance and their utility bill and all the other bills they have to pay to meet their family budget, for many of them there is nothing left, and for some of them there is an insufficient amount to pay even those bills. In my opinion the question of this bill here tonight is this: Does this legislation help or not help that family? I think this legislation helps that family. It is my conclusion that $500 per child in their hand is better spent by them. It is my conviction that that $500 belongs to them. They earned it. It is a necessity for their way of life, and by voting for this bill tonight, I think we can let them keep more of what they earned. I rise in support of the legislation.”