In an exclusive interview, Oprah Winfrey visits Lady Gaga’s childhood home in New York and sits down with her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, who shares what it is like to be the mother of the world’s biggest pop star.
“How was that for you when she was in her teens,” Oprah asks in a sneak peek look at Sunday’s interview on OWN.
“When Gaga started emerging, when she was performing, I think it was at Joe’s Pub downtown. She was in her bikini performing with Lady Starlight and decided that night to heavy metal to actually light hairspray on fire,” Cynthia recalls. “Some people left when that happened and a lot of people stayed and thought it was cool, but her father and I were like, honestly, he said, ‘I think she has a screw loose.’ “
Source: OK Magazine
Child Tax Credit Approval Caps Busy Month
AP Online May 21, 2004 | MARY DALRYMPLE, AP Tax Writer MARY DALRYMPLE, AP Tax Writer AP Online 05-21-2004 Dateline: WASHINGTON A vote to preserve and expand a $1,000 child tax credit topped a month of House work highlighting President Bush’s tax cuts during this election year.
House lawmakers have voted in succession to lock down the president’s tax cuts, a broadened bottom tax bracket and adjustments to the alternative minimum tax so that levy on wealthy tax dodgers wouldn’t snare more unsuspecting families.
The House voted 271-139 on Thursday to add the $1,000 child tax credit to the list of tax reductions they want to safeguard. The bill would cut taxes $228 billion over a decade and stop the child credit from dropping to $700 next year.
“If parents are to take advantage of this tax credit to purchase new clothes, school supplies or a new computer for their child or to invest in their child’s future, they need to know that these tax cuts are not here today and gone tomorrow,” said Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. go to website child tax credit 2012
The Senate plans to wrap extensions of the three popular tax cuts into one bill and pass it later this year. The Republican budget passed in the House envisions a final bill that stops short of making the tax cuts permanent and instead calls for a one-year extension.
Opposition from moderate Republican senators who want to further limit tax cuts forced the Senate to postpone debate on that budget at least until June.
Fewer House Democrats backed the child tax credit bill than other bills cementing tax cuts. Many disagreed with GOP efforts to expand the full credit to families earning up to $250,000.
“This bill is outrageous,” said Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. “What we’re doing today, here again, is offering huge tax breaks for those who need them least.”
The increase makes members of Congress with children eligible for the credit. They earn $158,100. site child tax credit 2012
“Do we need that tax break? I don’t think so,” said Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich.
The bill would make a bigger child tax credit immediately available to low-income families by accelerating a change scheduled to take place next year. That change lets families earning more than $10,750 to claim 15 percent of the credit as a refund. Currently, they can claim 10 percent.
Another change would let soldiers claim bigger credits by counting tax-free combat pay for purposes of calculating the tax credit.
The House voted 226-187 to reject a Democratic version of the bill that made preservation of the $1,000 child tax credit hinge on a balanced budget after 2010.
Democrats also wanted to make full-time minimum wage workers eligible for the credit by setting the bar for eligibility at $10,000, and to cover the cost of the bill’s tax cuts with a 2.75 percent surcharge on individuals earning more than $500,000 and couples earning more than $1 million.
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The bill is H.R. 4359.
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In an exclusive interview, Oprah Winfrey visits Lady Gaga’s childhood home in New York and sits down with her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, who shares what it is like to be the mother of the world’s biggest pop star.
