[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3160]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          TODAY'S MESSAGE OF NEW EXTREMIST REPUBLICAN MAJORITY

  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, if there was ever a time that illustrated 
what the new extremist Republican majority is all about, it is today. 
Here is what they are trying to do. The Republicans in the 
appropriations bill are eliminating meat and potatoes programs like 
summer jobs and slashing desperately needed efforts like housing for 
the elderly while leaving billions of dollars of pork in their spending 
bill. At the same time the Republicans in the Committee on Ways and 
Means reported a bill that benefits the wealthy disproportionately.
  One of the fairest and finest things done in the 1980's, the idea 
that the richest and largest corporations would have to pay some taxes 
no matter what loopholes they used, the Republicans seek to repeal even 
that.
  The old days where huge companies like AT&T and General Dynamics and 
Mobil paid no taxes while the average working stiff had to ante up each 
year are coming back, thanks to the Republican majority. Eliminate 
summer jobs, cut housing for the elderly so the biggest corporations 
can pay no taxes? That is today's message of the new extremist 
Republican majority.

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