[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    LET US PASS THIS TAX BILL TODAY

  (Mr. WHITE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WHITE. Mr. Speaker, a week or two ago I made a very difficult 
decision. There is nobody in this House who wants to cut taxes more 
than I do. But I decided that I would not vote for the tax cuts that we 
are going to consider today unless I was sure we had the spending cuts 
to go along with them. I did not want to make the deficit worse, and, 
as I explained when I sat down and talked to leadership about this, I 
do not think we should go on a diet, or I do not think we should eat 
our dessert before we go on a diet. We have got a lot of hard work to 
do this summer to get the spending cuts under control. Then it would be 
time to pass the tax cuts.
  Well, Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to say that the bill we are 
going to consider today does exactly that. The tax cuts under this bill 
do not take effect unless we have done our job this summer with the 
Senate to enact laws that will balance the budget. The great genius of 
this, Mr. Speaker, is that, when every special interest group comes to 
see us this summer asking us to save their particular program, the 
American people will know that, if we do our job and they help us do 
our job, we will be able to cut their tax.
  That is what we should do. Let us pass this bill today.
  

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