Today Rep. John Lewis introduced the Cash Back Reward Act of 2010 that will permit families to claim a tax deduction for interest paid on their credit cards for the next two years.

WASHINGTON DC –Oversight Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA) is today applauding many proposals in the Administration’s budget that would make critical improvements to the tax system.

“The Oversight Subcommittee looks forward to examining the Administration’s budget for the IRS in the upcoming months,” said Subcommittee Chairman Lewis.  “I am pleased that the President’s budget includes proposals I have worked on with my colleagues—making it easier for citizens who are struggling to pay their taxes to make payment agreements with the IRS, modernizing current rules applied to employer-provided cell phones, and expanding a State’s ability to collect delinquent taxes.”

"It is a shame and a disgrace that someone in Governor Sonny Perdue's office would take a cheap partisan shot on an issue that means so much to the people of Georgia.  Transportation should be at the top of every elected official's agenda in Atlanta, and it has been a major focus for me throughout my entire tenure in Congress.

"I have brought back hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to help solve Georgia's transportation problems over the years, only to have millions left unused by the state.  I secured tens of millions for the Multi-Modal Terminal, the Georgia Commuter Rail, and the Lovejoy to Griffin line.

"Howard Zinn was a wonderful historian, who not only wrote history but lived and made history.  As a faculty member at Spelman College, he became actively involved in the local civil rights movement and later became a major advisor and supporter of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).  He wrote the definitive book on the contributions of SNCC. 

And it was his voice crying out, speaking out, organizing teach-ins against the war in Vietnam that had a major impact on mobilizing people all across America in the work to end our involvement in South East Asia.   The death of Howard Zinn is a tremendous loss to a generation of young people who came to know him and love him as a teacher, but also as a friend."

"Tonight I think the President set a high mark, and it is up to us, the members of the House and the Senate, to meet that mark.  I have been to all the state of the union addresses given by all the presidents of the last 22 years.  I think this is one of the best I have ever witnessed.  President Barack Obama spoke in an inspiring, uplifting, and powerful way.  He reached beyond the walls of Congress and spoke directly to the American people.