[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 61 (Monday, April 3, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4043]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      ANOTHER CLASS-WARFARE ANGLE

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, well, there was an example of the misleading 
hyperbole that we have heard for the last several weeks on Republican 
programs.
  My friend from Hawaii talks about a bill that passed last week that 
protected billionaires and, in fact, the bill never addressed the 
issue. It never addressed the issue.
  The Senate put some language in a bill that would have dealt with 
punishing people who leave the United States because of confiscatory 
taxation. The Senate then receded from their position, because the 
language was too loose, and the House Committee on Ways and Means could 
not draft language.
  Indeed, in the Committee on Rules in discussion of this bill, the 
issue was raised, and the Democrats dropped the issue and apologized 
for the misleading information they brought us, because it was not in 
the bill. It was not in the House-passed bill. It was not in the 
conference committee report. And, indeed, not a single Democrat on the 
Committee on Rules voted against the rule that brought the bill to the 
floor, and now overnight, overnight, they discovered another class-
warfare angle and started misleading America about what was in the 
bill.
  The bill was to return the exemption for health care premiums for 
single farmers, for private property owners that had nothing to do with 
what the gentleman from Hawaii spoke about.

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