[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4190]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     CHARGES RELATING TO TAX BREAK FOR RUPERT MURDOCH ARE LUDICROUS

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, for the chairman of the Committee on Ways 
and Means to come up here a few minutes ago and to suggest that a 
junior Senator in the minority party in the other body is responsible 
for a multimillion dollar tax break for Rupert Murdoch is ludicrous. 
Democrats have not been able to win one vote in committee in this body 
and in the other body since January.
  Newspaper accounts report that the Republicans supported the tax 
break after learning that Murdoch was the beneficiary of the 
legislation, and after consulting the Speaker of this House, according 
to six sources involved in the negotiations. However, if Republicans 
want to act on behalf of working middle-class families in this Nation, 
and on behalf of small businesses, and against a multimillion-dollar 
break for Rupert Murdoch and his taxes, they just need to ask the 
President of the United States ``Pull the bill back, support the 
concurrent resolution, and do away with this outrageous billionaire 
boondoggle.''

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