Sean Patrick Maloney: “Reclaiming my time, I am outraged by this information. I thank the gentleman for letting me know about it. Certainly…”

“Reclaiming my time, I am outraged by this information. I thank the gentleman for letting me know about it. Certainly investing in human lives and trying to make them whole again after they have lost so much, in my opinion, is far more important than a timber subsidy. I repeat, $268 million is being taken from the individuals and the businesses, most of which are small businesses, back into the Federal government. And to make matters worse, the IRS did not tell these people until the eve of the tax date so that they spent the money, as Mrs. Olga Diaz did, investing in trying to get her business going again. Now they are coming in and taking a third of her grant, which is just a fraction of the grant that was owed to her in her $300,000 loss. So this is very unfair, and I do not believe that it is the intent of this body to tax these grants. I hope that in a subsequent bill or amendment it will be made in order or the bill from the delegation may come to the floor to correct this.”