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HCONRES 282 109th Congress House Taxation Income tax Poverty Social Welfare Tax incidence Tax rates Working poor

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the tax give away since 2001 to the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans should be repealed and those monies instead invested in vital programs to relieve the…

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Expressing the sense of the Congress that the tax give away since 2001 to the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans should be repealed and those monies instead invested in vital programs to relieve the growing burden on the working poor and to alleviate poverty in America.

Introduced: October 27, 2005 See on congress.gov
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Oct 27, 2005
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Oct 27, 2005
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of Congress that the portion of tax cuts enacted in or after 2001 that benefited the wealthiest 5% of Americans should be repealed and the revenues from such repeal should be used to alleviate poverty in the United States.

What's happening now October 27, 2005

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
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Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Dec 22, 2005
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McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Nov 2, 2005
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Con. Res. 282: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the tax give away since 2001 to the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans should be repealed and those monies instead invested in vital programs to relieve the growing burden on the working poor and to alleviate poverty in America.. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HCONRES-282/
MLA
"H. Con. Res. 282: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the tax give away since 2001 to the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans should be repealed and those monies instead invested in vital programs to relieve the growing burden on the working poor and to alleviate poverty in America.." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HCONRES-282/.
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H. Con. Res. 282, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HCONRES-282/.
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[H. Con. Res. 282: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the tax give away since 2001 to the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans should be repealed and those monies instead invested in vital programs to relieve the growing burden on the working poor and to alleviate poverty in America.](https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HCONRES-282/)
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