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Don Nickles: “much to my colleague's surprise, there is very serious opposition. I hope we can vote this down by a voice vote. This…”

On the recordJune 27, 1997
much to my colleague's surprise, there is very serious opposition. I hope we can vote this down by a voice vote. This amendment would add outlays and increase Uncle Sam's writing of checks for the first 5 years of $9 billion and over 10 years of $19 billion. And this amendment would say that we stack these in order that people get the income education credit, the wage credit, and the tax credit that we are adding to the bill and the EIC. And on top of that, for a family with two children already gets $3,680. Uncle Sam will write the check. We would also give $1,000 on top of it. I want to raise a point of order.
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma
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Discussing an amendment related to tax credits and federal outlays during a floor debate.

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