House Proceeding 05-20-08 on May 20th, 2008 :: 0:32:30 to 0:33:37
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Virginia Foxx: two minutes. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i, too, apple here to support h.r. 6081, the heroes earnings assistance and relief tax act. we need to look for every way possible to give

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Speech By: Virginia Foxx

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Virginia Foxx: relief to our folks who are serving in the military. i'm pleased to say that two years ago the president signed into law a bill that i call the hero act, which allowed folks who earned combat

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Virginia Foxx: pay to use that pay to go into taking out an i.r.a. again, the idea came from an average citizen who notified our office of a concern because his son had tried to invest his combat pay

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Virginia Foxx: into an i.r.a., looking to prepare for his future, and we were able to get that bill passed through the ways and means committee two years ago. and that bill went through a similar experience

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Virginia Foxx: that this bill is going through, having passed, then meeting problems in the senate, then having to pass again. but i think this bill contains so many elements that will advantage people

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Virginia Foxx: who are willing to serve in the military. and as chairman rangel has said, these are the people who have kept us free from the beginning of this country, and i think that anything that we