[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 30, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4132]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




REPEALING GAS TAX WILL HELP AMERICANS AT LOWEST RUNG ON ECONOMIC LADDER

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to my good 
friend and colleague from California and her editorial cartoon that she 
brought out, but I thought she and other Members on the liberal side of 
the aisle would be interested in this statement from President Clinton 
when he was freed from the strictures of campaign fever.
  ``It'', raising the minimum wage, ``is the wrong way to raise the 
incomes of low-wage earners.'' So said the President in Time magazine 
February 6 of last year.
  Mr. Speaker, the challenge for us is not to prescribe some artificial 
wage mandated by Government. The challenge for us is to allow hard-
working Americans to hang on to more of the money they earn and send 
less of it to the Federal Government, beginning with this regressive, 
horrible Clinton tax on gasoline. Let us repeal that today in true 
bipartisan fashion and that will help American workers at the lowest 
rung of the economic ladder and on up.

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