[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 30, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4135]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                BLAMING THE GAS TAX ON THE REPUBLICANS?

  (Mr. McINNIS  asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I was just in the House Chambers, and I 
cannot believe what I just heard in the last few minutes.
  I was here 2 years ago, and I voted ``no'' on the largest tax 
increase in the history of this country. It was the Clinton tax 
increase supported by the Democrats in the House of Representatives, 
not one Republican voted for it, and supported by the Democrats in the 
U.S. Senate. What did that large tax increase do? It put on the 
American people and the working people, from what previous speakers 
have just spoken, the largest tax increase in the history of this 
country, and I certainly did not see any of these brave speeches, just 
now given recently in the last few minutes, but some of these Democrats 
about this onerous gas tax. It is those people right there who put that 
gas tax on each and every one of us.
  People did not have to be rich to get the gas tax put on them. They 
put a 4\1/2\ cent tax on every American that buys a gallon of gas, and 
today they are trying to get away from it as fast as they can run and 
somehow do a flip-flop and blame it on the Republicans.
  Forget about the partisan politics. Let us talk about the tax.

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