[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: January 26, 1994]
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                           ABOLISH NEW TAXES

  (Mr. RAMSTAD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RAMSTAD. Mr. Speaker, a year ago at the dawn of a new 
Presidential administration, Americans eagerly awaited enactment of the 
promised middle-income tax cut.
  We all know what happened.
  No tax cut. Instead, retroactive tax increases--even on the dead.
  I am sure if Members of this body were asked a year ago today, ``Are 
taxes going to be raised retroactively back to the Bush 
administration?,'' all of us would have said ``No.''
  Yet, that is exactly what Congress did.
  This should never happen again. That's why I introduced House 
Resolution 247, which would amend the House Rules to establish a point 
of order against considering any measure that contains a retroactive 
tax increase.
  Even though House Resolution 247 has been cosponsored by 135 Members 
from both sides of the aisle, the Rules Committee has refused to hold a 
hearing on this resolution.
  Accordingly, I have been compelled to file a discharge petition. I 
urge all of my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans alike, to sign it 
today.
  Let us abolish retroactive taxes.

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