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Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Ninth District, IL

Facts on the Child Tax Credit

BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S MISSTATEMENT OF THE DAY – CHILD TAX CREDIT (Jan. 7, 2004) In a speech today to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said: “Taxpayers with children received an immediate boost from rebate checks of $400 per eligible child sent out in July and August.” (Sec. Snow, 1/7/04) That is not true. Twelve million children from 6.5 million families did not receive the child tax credit. Republicans removed a provision that would have provided an increase in the child credit to working and military families making between $10,500 and $26,625 during final closed-door negotiations on the $350 billion tax bill signed by President Bush. (Click for Full Misstatement) BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S MISSTATEMENT OF THE DAY – CHILD TAX CREDIT (Nov. 3, 2003) During a speech today in Birmingham, Alabama, President Bush said: " ...if you had a child, then you got $400 per child." The President, however, failed to mention the 12 million children that Republicans left behind in the new tax law in order to make room for tax breaks for the wealthy. Schakowsky said, “President Bush refused to intervene on behalf of working families, but he doesn’t hesitate to talk about their children when it suits his political purpose. It is shameful.” (Click for Full Misstatement) Schakowsky: Republicans Continue to DeLay Child Tax Credit to Working Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – (Sept. 5th, 2003) U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today joined her Democratic colleagues in an effort to provide 6.5 million low-income working families with the expanded child tax credit denied them by Congressional Republicans. (Continue to Statement) Schakowsky: Republicans DeLay Child Tax Credit Checks to 6.5 Million Working Families WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 25, 2003) – U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today said that on the day millions of child tax credit checks are mailed to families across America, House Republicans continue to delay extending that credit to 6.5 million working families. (Schakowsky’s Statement) House Democratic Women Call on President Bush to Intervene With GOP House Leadership on Behalf of 6.5 Million Working Families Denied Expanded Child Tax Credit WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 23, 2003) – Writing to President Bush on behalf of the 12 million children and the 6.5 million working families who have been denied an increase in the child tax credit, House Democratic Women members called on the President to “intervene immediately to persuade the House leadership to accept the Senate-passed version of the expanded child tax credit,” before Congress recesses this week. “The Senate bill would provide a modest but essential child tax credit, one that is especially needed by the nearly 4 million single mothers and the one million stay-at-home mothers whose families were left out of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act. In fact, as a recent National Women’s Law Center report concluded, two-thirds of the parents excluded from the expanded child tax credit provisions are women,” the members continued....(continue to statement) Who's Child is Left Behind? (.pdf file) House Democratic Leader Pelosi Joins Schakowsky And Colleagues in Chicago to Push For Child Tax Credit Benefit to Working Families CHICAGO, IL –(June 30,2003) House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and members of the Illinois delegation today called on Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) to provide 378,000 Illinois working and military families with an extension of the child tax credit when Congress returns following the Forth of July holiday. Nationally, 12 million children of working and military families were denied the child tax credit, including 674,000 in Illinois....(continue) (Picture: The Narvaez Family from the 9th Congressional District of Illinois, Denied Child Credit by Republicans.) Editorial: 07/24/2003 Children (Still) Left Behind Washington Post Editorial: 07/24/2003 Compassion and the Tax Cuts New York times Article: 06/25/2003 Poor locked out by GOP House Chicago Sun-Times Article: 06/20/2003 Religious Leaders Ask White House to Push Child Tax Credit The New York Times Article: 06/08/2003 Congressional Memo; Fight or Flight? G.O.P. Split Over Tax Credits The New York Times Article: 06/06/2003 TAX FACTS: Child Credit Debate Reborn In US Congress Dow Jones Newswires Congressional Statements: June 11, 2003 "Child Tax Credit" June 10, 2003 "Tax Cut to Working Families" June 3, 2003 “Republican Tax Cut Leaves Poor Families Behind” June 4, 2003 “Families Do Matter” Reports: Number of Children Benefiting from the Rangel Child Tax and Earned Income Tax Provisions How the New Tax Law Alters the Child Tax Credit and how Low-Income Families are Affected One in Six Families with Children Would Gain from Increasing Child Credit Refund Percentage

Facts on the Child Tax Credit

Schakowsky: Republicans DeLay Child Tax Credit Checks to 6.5 Million Working Families

WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 25, 2003) – U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today said that on the day millions of child tax credit checks are mailed to families across America, House Republicans continue to delay extending that credit to 6.5 million working families. (Schakowsky’s Statement)