[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 27 (Friday, February 10, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1560]
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                   SOLVING THREE PROBLEMS AT ONE TIME

  (Mr. FLAKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FLAKE. Mr. Speaker, during the course of the last several months, 
as we have been in the House there have been three issues that have 
been discussed in some manner, one of them being capital gains breaks 
for the rich, one of them being adjusting the minimum wage, trying to 
adjust the wage by which we increase the payments to those who are the 
working poor, as well as welfare reform.
  I come today offering a solution to all of it. Let us give capital 
gains reductions, let us target it so we give minimum wage to the 
working poor, while at the same time as we move persons off of welfare 
give them an opportunity to work at a job that pays a decent wage.
  We can solve all three problems if we can work together. Let us 
remove all the partisanship, let us not look at these issues as being 
disjointed, let us hook them up together, capital gains, minimum wage 
increase while at the same time changing welfare. We can solve the 
problem for everybody.
  Win, win, win.

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