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Teresa Leger Fernandez: I remind everybody here that Democrats offered an amendment in the Rules Committee so that we could have fixed the SALT…

On the recordFebruary 14, 2024
I remind everybody here that Democrats offered an amendment in the Rules Committee so that we could have fixed the SALT problem not just for tax year 2023, which is when you pay your taxes now in 2024, but fixed it for 2 years. If Republicans were really interested in solving this problem, they would have made sure that it got fixed for the 2 years. Do you know what the Republican vote was? Unanimous. Every single one of my Republican colleagues on the Rules Committee said, no, we don't want a fix that would actually fix it for 2 years. We just want to get past this next election. We want to make sure that when people file their taxes now, as April 15 is coming up, that this is fixed. One year--they could have had it for 2. Every single one of them, even our New York colleague, voted ``no.'' Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell).
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Teresa Leger Fernandez
Democratic · New Mexico
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Feb 14, 2024

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