[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H6093-H6094]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      WHAT WE ARE NOT DOING TODAY

  (Mr. WARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, I think that it is important, after just 
hearing from [[Page H 6094]] Speaker Gingrich, what we are going to do 
and what we are not going to do today.
  Well, I will have to ask the empty Chamber what we are not going to 
do today.
  What we are not going to do today is deal with the question of 
billionaires and the tax loopholes they can take in renouncing their 
citizenship. What we are not going to do today is to add a gift ban, a 
meaningful gift ban, which many of us have taken voluntarily, that 
requires, that allows, that makes sure that we do not fall under undue 
influence.
  What is important to ask today is not what we are doing with some of 
these poll-driven, cynical ideas that seem to reach out to the common 
denominator, but, rather what we are not doing up here. We are not 
taking care of Medicare. We are cutting Medicare to give a tax break to 
the most wealthy.
  We have got to look not at what we are doing today but what we are 
not doing, and what they are planning to do.

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