[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                          VOTE FOR TAX RELIEF

  (Mr. FORBES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FORBES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in full support of the Tax 
Fairness and Deficit Reduction Act. Over the past 4 years, Americans 
have been hit with two of the largest tax increases in modern memory. 
While home mortgage rates have continued to rise, the cost to Long 
Island and my area has continued to rise, Washington agencies and 
departments have enjoyed double digit increases in their spending 
budgets, helped along by over $300 billion in new taxes over the last 4 
years on hard working American families.
  Today we begin the process to reverse what has been a de facto policy 
in Washington of punishing families. We will give $190 billion back to 
the American people for their own tax relief.
  One important element of this tax relief bill is a provision to help 
along the job creators, the small business men and women of this 
country who are creating the jobs. On eastern Long Island small 
businesses are the heart of our local economy, and across America. It 
is time that Washington understood and that my colleagues on the other 
side understood that the American people need tax relief.


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