[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3093]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    THE SHAMEFUL REVERSE ROBIN HOOD POLITICS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, why are Republicans cutting school lunches 
for our children, heating assistance for our seniors, and health care 
for our veterans? To pay for yet another tax cut for the wealthy.
  Last week we finally got a look at the Republican tax giveaway, and 
we found that 50 percent of the benefits of the Republican tax cuts go 
to people making $100,000 or more. The capital gains cut is worth 
$8,000 to families making $200,000 or more, while working middle class 
families making $30,000 or less would only get a tax cut worth $92.
  Mr. Speaker, I say to my colleague who just spoke, yes, that is a 
fact, it is a diet, it is a diet for the working middle class families 
of this country. Cutting services for the most vulnerable to benefit 
the most privileged 2 percent of Americans is wrong. The reverse Robin 
Hood politics of the Republican Party is shameful.

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