[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 62 (Tuesday, May 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4440]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   CUTTING DUPLICATION, NOT EDUCATION

  (Mr. CHRYSLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHRYSLER. Mr. Speaker, 128 days out of the year, 17 weeks out of 
52, are spent working to pay our taxes. In other words, for 128 days 
the average American works for government. Something is wrong with this 
picture.
  Mr. Speaker, the American family is being pressured from all sides 
today. It does not help that government takes 128 days of his or her 
labor. And, thanks to Bill Clinton, Americans now work an extra 6 days 
to pay their taxes. That is another pay gone to finance the 
Government's spending by the Washington bureaucrats.
  Mr. Speaker, we need less government, lower taxes, we need to let 
people keep more of what they earn and save, and we need to let people 
make their own decisions about how they spend their money, not 
government.
  As to the remarks of the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey] about 
education, we had 760 educational programs in 39 different departments 
in this Federal Government. We said 170 of them were duplicative of 
other ones. That is not cutting education. This is cutting duplication.

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