[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4116]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     CUTS IN PROGRAMS PAVE THE WAY FOR TAX BREAK FOR RUPERT MURDOCH

  (Mr. KLINK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KLINK. Mr. Speaker, I have learned over the years as a journalist 
hat where there is smoke there is fire, and I have learned as a 
Congressman that sometimes when there is a fire, it can quickly become 
an inferno.
  We began talking at the beginning of this new Congress about the fact 
that there was something smelly about a $4.5 million book deal for 
Speaker Newt Gingrich being offered by Rupert Murdoch. Now we find out 
that it was indeed that same Rupert Murdoch who gets $63 million in 
special tax advantages hidden away in a bill that came through 
conference and was brought out on this floor last week.
  I ask the Members, let us take a look at what we are doing. We are 
being asked to cut Stafford loans which would cause 4.5 million 
students' tuition to go up 20 to 30 percent, but we would give $63 
million in tax breaks to Rupert Murdoch. We are being asked to cut 
work-study programs that pay 75 percent of the wages for students, 
700,000 students, who are willing to work their way through school, but 
we have $63 million to give away to Mr. Murdoch.
  Mr. Speaker, as we are taking money from women, infants and children, 
we seem to have money for Rupert Murdoch, a friend of the Speaker.


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