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| | Manhattan Chamber of Commerce - New York City, New York Chamber of Commerce |
 | | Maloney, along with others in the New York delegation, has written the IRS, the Secretary of Treasury, the President, Speaker Hastert, and the leadership of the Senate, calling for a reversal of this decision. |
 | | Maloney has introduced bipartisan legislation on the issue (H.R. 1620), the Ways and Means Committee is aware of the problem, and the Congressional Research Service has done a memo on it. |
 | | Excerpts from Maloney’s statement in defense of her most recent amendment follows, with web links at the end of this release including a time line of events, the IRS decision to tax these grants, and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimate of potential costs to 9/11 victims. |
| www.manhattancc.org /News/detail.cfm?QID=1744 (533 words) |
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