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HR 5353 111th Congress House

War is Making You Poor Act

Official title: To reduce the $159.3 billion from the discretionary overseas contingency operations funds in the President's fiscal year 2011 budget for operations in Iraq, Af… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To reduce the $159.3 billion from the discretionary overseas contingency operations funds in the President's fiscal year 2011 budget for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (without preventing use of mandatory funds from the Department of Defense budget to execute the War on Terror), and amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide individuals a "War is Making You Poor" tax credit against the savings attributable to the overseas contingency operations reduction.

Introduced: May 26, 2010 See on congress.gov
Armed Forces and National Security AfghanistanAppropriationsAsiaDefense spending
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Department of DefenseIncome tax creditsIraqMiddle EastMilitary operations and strategyPakistan
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 24, 2010
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3729-3730)
May 20, 2010
Referred to House Ways and Means
May 20, 2010
Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 20, 2010
Referred to House Armed Services
May 20, 2010
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3689)
May 20, 2010
Introduced in House
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 Latest action May 24, 2010

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3729-3730)

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

War is Making You Poor Act - Limits amounts made available to the Department of Defense (DOD) in any appropriations Act for fiscal year 2011 that may be available for the base budget or for overseas contingency operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers whose modified adjusted gross income is $35,000 or less ($70,000 for married couples) a tax credit (designated as the War is Making You Poor Tax Credit) equal to their net income tax liability for the first taxable year beginning in 2011.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · May 28, 2010
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · May 26, 2010
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5353: War is Making You Poor Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-5353/
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"H.R. 5353: War is Making You Poor Act." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-5353/.
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