{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2025-05-29-pt1-PgE486-3", "2025-05-29", 119, 1, null, null, "PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1, ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "ALLOTHER", "E486", "E486", "[{\"name\": \"Rosa L. DeLauro\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", "[{\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HR\", \"number\": \"1\"}]", "171 Cong. Rec. E486", "Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 91 (Thursday, May 29, 2025)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 91 (Thursday, May 29, 2025)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E486]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n   PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1, ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT\n\n                                 ______\n\n                               speech of\n\n                          HON. ROSA L. DeLAURO\n\n                             of connecticut\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                        Wednesday, May 21, 2025\n\n  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague and good friend, the\nRanking Member of the Rules Committee Jim McGovern. He is a tireless\nfighter for working families and I am proud to be in that fight with\nhim. I am glad to call out the egregious giveaway to billionaires and\nbig corporations being orchestrated in this Republican tax bill.\n  The $4.5 trillion--and counting, counting because we do not have the\nfull CBO score as this bill is being jammed through the House--is what\nwe are talking about. That is what Republicans are preparing to shower\non the richest companies and their billionaire owners, while giving\nmere pennies to the middle class, working class, and vulnerable\nfamilies who are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.\n  President Trump campaigned on lowering prices. He pledged to ``bring\nfood costs down on day one.'' Instead, the opposite has happened. His\nown USDA recently reported egg prices could rise 41 percent over the\nnext year. Since taking office, he has done nothing to help families.\n  This is shameful, because the alternative is clear. A few weeks ago,\nI reintroduced the American Family Act, legislation to reinstate the\nimproved, expanded Child Tax Credit. The American Family Act would\ncreate the strongest version of the tax credit ever, indexing the value\nof the credit to inflation, and it would establish a baby bonus to help\nfamilies in that critical first year after birth.\n  The data proves that the expanded Child Tax Credit that we passed in\n2021 delivered the greatest middle class tax cut in a generation,\nreaching nearly 36 million families--61 million children. It was the\nantidote to child poverty and to inflation. It gave real money back to\nmillions of working families in the form of monthly checks, cutting\nchild hunger by a fourth and bringing child poverty down to the lowest\nrecorded levels in history.\n  The watered-down imitation of a Child Tax Credit included in this\nbill will not continue this progress. I want to take this time to\naddress a few misconceptions about the Child Tax Credit that have been\npresent in this debate so far. According to the Columbia Center on\nPoverty and Social Policy, nearly one out of four children, 17 million\nchildren nationwide, are excluded from full credit because their family\nincomes are too low to qualify. This is not an issue of work\nrequirements. The current version of the CTC functions as an income\nrequirement, hurting families who work hard or are retired grandparents\nwho are now caring for a second generation, but simply do not earn\nenough to qualify. Families with parents who work hard will be excluded\nbecause their wages are too meager. Are you truly saying that\nbillionaires and corporations need tax breaks more than the youngest of\nyour constituents? This bill would make that problem worse, not better.\n  This bill pays lip service to the Child Tax Credit--I believe the\nAmerican people need more than that.\n  Our bill is the real deal. The improved, expanded Child Tax Credit\nfixes this problem. We need that now more than ever. Across the\ncountry, families are living paycheck to paycheck while prices for\neveryday goods and essential services, from eggs to gasoline to\nmedicine and childcare, continue to rise.\n  This should not be a partisan issue. Republicans like former Senator\nMitt Romney, Senator Josh Hawley, and even Vice President J.D. Vance\nhave supported the Child Tax Credit because the evidence that it helped\nfamilies is so overwhelming.\n  But Republican leadership in Congress has been clear: they want to\ngive the corporate lobbyists everything they ask for and then some.\nThey are gutting Medicaid, food stamps, and anything else that stands\nin the way of more money for billionaires.\n  This bill is not responding to the cost-of-living crisis. This bill\nis pouring gasoline on the fire. My promise to American families is\nthat I will fight as hard as I can, with every ally I can find, to stop\nthis corrupt giveaway and focus on bringing down the cost of living\nthrough a proven policy, the expanded Child Tax Credit--not the meager\nsubstitute in this bill.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2025-05-29-pt1-PgE486-3"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 13.09946016408503, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}