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Charles Rangel: Certainly, we all will be getting a lot of mail from the logging companies asking for this legislation in order to…

On the recordSeptember 18, 2014
Certainly, we all will be getting a lot of mail from the logging companies asking for this legislation in order to create jobs. I wish included in this package would have been the earned income tax credit, a bill that keeps people who work hard each and every day out of poverty by subsidizing their wages, but that is too much like creating jobs, and it is not in this package. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Johnson), a distinguished and articulate Member who serves on the Judiciary Committee and has a ranking position on the subcommittee that has jurisdiction over part of this bill.
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Charles Rangel
Democratic · New York
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Sep 18, 2014

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