Political Quotes

“I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member of this Appropriations Committee for their hard work and working together, Mr. Crenshaw and Mr. Serrano. These are important matters, and I thank them for the opportunity to present this amendment. My amendment is a simple theory, but a very important one. This amendment provides $100,000 to the IRS taxpayer services account to assist parents who have lost dependent children during the tax year with assistance in filing income taxes and supports one-stop IRS tax preparation support for parents of deceased dependent children whose child's SS number has been stolen and used by identity thieves to steal tax refunds. I am the founder and cochair of the Congressional Children's Caucus, and in many instances, we find in our work the issues of giving children incentives and worrying about children's health, but this is a very devastating posture for parents to be in. At a hearing held by Chairman Sam Johnson on the Ways and Means Committee, a hearing on Social Security death records dated February 2, 2012, and I will read--the testimony of the statement said: We will hear the heartbreaking story of one family whose 4- year-old daughter had her identity stolen shortly after she passed away. Only when their tax return was rejected by the IRS did they learn that an identity thief had already filed a return claiming their child as a dependent.…”