Louise Slaughter: “Mr. Speaker, I will enter into the Record at this point an article from the Boston Globe entitled "Sticking it to…”

“Mr. Speaker, I will enter into the Record at this point an article from the Boston Globe entitled "Sticking it to working families," that shows how this Congress is raising taxes on 4 million low-income families which support 9 million children. Only in George Bush's privileged America could the following outrage occur: Despite the president's supposed theological objection to tax increases, that is exactly what about 4 million families with roughly 9 million children are about to experience, with Bush's cynical support. The outrage is actually worse, because the shiv is about to be stuck in these hand-working families under the guise of an effort to help them. Congress is about to pass a catch-all measure allegedly designed to deal with several problems affecting middle-income and lower-income working families arising from the tax cuts of recent years. The problems are a graphic illustration of how shoddy legislation written by people who mostly focus on big-shot lobbyists can cause ordinary Americans to plummet through the cracks.”