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Sixty-one million children? Ms. DeLAURO. Yes. There was about 4 million kids lifted out of poverty, almost half the kids in the U.S. lifted out of poverty. Now, what we are talking about in this tax deal is 400,000 kids they talk about…

Mr. Speaker, my only proposal was to have a more generous phase-in. If you are going to require people to work, why not allow them to have 40 percent of the credit after the first $2,500 of income. That way, someone who was working and…

the money that we call taxpayers money that we return in the way of tax cuts is not the government's money, it's their money.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I associate myself with all of the comments that have been made today in describing the importance of these bills and getting us one step closer to a really healthy…