[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4189]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         STUDENT LOAN PROGRAMS

  (Mrs. CLAYTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CLAYTON. Mr. Speaker, we really are about fairness here. I would 
suggest to our former speaker that we sometimes want to see that 
fairness go both ways.
  Mr. Speaker, under the fictitious banner of a fair tax bill, there is 
a relentless and unswerving drive that has been launched by the 
Republican party against the average working American.
  This drive is designed to give tax relief to the wealthy Americans 
who earn more than $200,000 and more. It is a crusade that is oblivious 
to the harm that is caused in its wake. They plan to give $277 billion 
in spending cuts. The bulk of these spending cuts will come from 
reducing discretionary spending and the welfare reform, according to 
the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich]. They also plan $190 billion in 
tax cuts, the bulk of which will go to the richest citizens in America.
  In other words, Mr. Speaker, what you have to do is add the cuts for 
poor people and the average working American and give those tax cuts to 
the richest persons in America.
  The difference in this equation is a loss to low- and middle-income 
Americans. To mollify people with money, they are causing pain to those 
who have very little money who are the working Americans in society.


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