[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H4183-H4184]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  THE CIRCUS IS UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the circus is in the District 
of Columbia today, and it is actually outside these doors of the 
Capitol. So we 
[[Page H4184]] bring in the clowns. We will shoot $500 tax cuts out of 
a cannon and sell cotton candy wrapped around a capital gains cut. Who 
is left paying at the ticket booth? Well, our senior citizens, our 
grade school and college students who have already sustained cuts, 
construction workers, mothers, and finally all taxpaying Americans.
  Today the Republican majority will attempt to pass a bill which will 
create the largest deficits that have been proposed recently. Welcome 
to the real circus under our Capitol dome. The Republican majority are 
working to give the top 2 percent Americans 58 percent of that $180 
billion tax cut. The 10-year cost will be $630 billion. Now that really 
is under the big top.
  The bears and elephants are not eating peanuts but hundred-dollar 
bills at our expense, from the pockets of hard-working Americans. 
Children are paying $2.3 billion in cuts in education and school 
nutrition programs. I hope they enjoy the circus today because it will 
be the last one for 10 years.
  The Greatest Show on Earth is not Barnum and Bailey, it is under our 
Capitol dome.


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