[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 12 (Friday, January 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H413-H414]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, if you are arrested for mass murder and 
the FBI has videotapes of your mass murder and the FBI has 100 nuns as 
eyewitnesses and the FBI has the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as 
eyewitnesses and the FBI has the Waltons and Mr. Rogers as eyewitnesses 
and they said you killed 100 people, you are innocent until proven 
guilty. But if you and your grandma and your grandpa go to court on a 
tax difference of $5,000, they have to prove they are innocent because 
they are guilty under the laws of this country. Unbelievable.
  H.R. 390 that the Republicans helped last year will change that. If 
it is good enough for the Son of Sam, it is good enough for mom and 
dad. And let me say this, John, more Americans support H.R. 390 than 
any other bill before the Congress.
  I am asking for your help to cosponsor H.R. 390. If it is good enough 
for the Son of Sam, it is good enough for grandma and grandpa. Think 
about it.

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                          A HISTORIC JUNCTION

  (Mr. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Speaker, this Nation is at a historic junction. 
Either we can follow the same course we have followed for the last 40 
years, a course of tax and spend, a course of rocketing deficits, or we 
can steer this flagship America into a new direction, a direction of 
fiscal responsibility, lower taxation and limited Government.
  But in order to avoid the rocks of higher taxation and the shoals of 
bigger deficits, we must have a balanced budget amendment with a 
provision that requires a three-fifths super majority of both the House 
and the Senate to raise taxes. A balanced budget amendment without a 
tax limitation is like a ship without a rudder, at the mercy of the 
prevailing winds which may blow.
  The three-fifths provision is the rudder that will steer America back 
in the right direction. For the sake of our children, for the sake of 
our grandchildren and this Nation, let us set a new course. Let us pass 
the balanced budget amendment with the three-fifths tax provision. Let 
us make the magic number 290 instead of 214 to raise taxes in the 
future.

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