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Mr. Speaker, I rise to appeal to the majority here to not make draconian cuts to the Women, Infants, and Children program. What is before us is a proposal to cut $800 million out of the fruit and vegetables portion of the WIC program…

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…

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…

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank our witnesses for appearing today.