[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4117]
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       FEDERAL WORKERS UNDER ATTACK BY TERMS OF PENDING TAX BILL

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, the most egregious, unfair aspect of the tax 
bill that will come before us deals with the people who process our 
Social Security tax, who patrol our borders, who operate the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, and who in fact do so many services that we 
take for granted--the Federal employees, a quarter of a million of whom 
have been cut, requiring those left to perform much more difficult 
work.
  But the most egregious aspect of this is that we are going to take 
$12 billion from their retirement plan, which means that the average 
Federal employee will pay $760 more per year in taxes in order to 
provide a tax cut for the average American of $124. I want to repeat 
this. The average Federal employee will pay $760 more in taxes to 
provide a tax cut of $124 for the average American. And these are 
employees who were guaranteed 8 years ago that their retirement system 
would never be changed.
  Mr. Speaker, this is an egregious assault not only on the integrity 
of the Congress but on the security of our Federal employees.

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