[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]


            FEDERAL EMPLOYEES PAYING FOR REPUBLICAN TAX CUTS

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, this is the Contract With America. This is a 
Contract With America, and I have looked at the fine print, and it does 
not say we are going to increase the taxes on 2 million people. It does 
not have a provision which says that on 2,000,000 of our employees' 
families you are going to have to tax increase. It does not say to 
those that are working for the Federal Government and our employees in 
this House, ``If you make $20,000, you're going to have a $500 tax 
increase; if you make 30, you're going to have a $750 increase; if you 
make 40, a thousand dollar increase, and if you make 50, a $1,250 tax 
increase so we can give a tax cut for the wealthiest of America.''
  ``Now Steny Hoyer has a lot of Federal employees.'' My colleagues are 
saying, ``This is a tax increase; we don't believe it.''
  Let me quote Gerald Solomon, chairman of the Committee on Rules: ``I 
have to agree with you that this is a case where we are raising taxes 
on some to pay for tax cuts for others,'' and that to me says Chairman 
Solomon is wrong.

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