[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 47 (Monday, April 15, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D302]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TAX LIMITATION AND RETROACTIVE TAXATION AMENDMENTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism 
and Property Rights concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 49, proposing an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require two-
thirds majorities for bills increasing taxes, and S.J. Res. 8, 
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
prohibit retroactive increases in taxes, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Coverdell; Representatives Skaggs, Barton, and Shadegg; former 
Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, Wilmington, representing the National 
Center for Policy Analysis; Jack Kemp, Empower America, Lloyd Cutler, 
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Grover G. Norquist, Americans for Tax 
Reform, William A. Niskanen and Roger Pilon, both of the Cato 
Institute, Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 
Joseph E. Schmitz, Patton Boggs, and Mortimer Caplin, Caplin & 
Drysdale, former U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, all of 
Washington, D.C.; John McGinnis, Yeshiva University Cardozo School of 
Law, New York, New York; David A. Strauss, University of Chicago Law 
School, Chicago, Illinois; and Joanne Dixon, Jirard, Georgia.