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Associated Builders and Contractors
To Provide Tax Incentives for Economic Recovery.
Rejected the Rangel amendment in the nature of a substitute that sought to provide rebates of $600 for joint filers and $300 for single filers, extend for one year all expiring tax provisions, create $11 billion in school construction financing; waive certain AMT limitations, and expand unemployment benefits.NAACP
H.R. 3090 / Economic Stimulus Package / Substitute.
Substitute amendment offered by Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) to the economic stimulus package that would have included additional unemployment and health insurance benefits, new spending on school construction, economic development, security enhancements and other domestic programs. The Rangel substitute would also have frozen the reduction in the top individual tax bracket. The Rangel substitute amendment failed.