[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 63 (Wednesday, May 14, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2598]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TAX CUTS FOR WORKING FAMILIES

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, like many of my colleagues, I go back to my 
district every weekend. Since there is a lot more common sense, in my 
view, in Cincinnati than there is here in Washington, I try to listen 
to as many people as possible when I am back home.
  The one question that keeps coming my way is this: ``Why can't you 
folks in Washington cut our taxes?'' That is a question they have got 
every right to ask us. It is their hard-earned money that comes to 
Washington every year in bigger and bigger chunks. The Government keeps 
getting bigger, and Federal programs up here grow and grow and that 
money comes right out of the paychecks of hard-working people in my 
district in Cincinnati.

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  Well, Mr. Speaker, I am with them. I am one of those Congressmen who 
is going to work very hard in the next few weeks to see that any budget 
agreement considered by this House contains serious tax cuts for the 
working families in Cincinnati and all around the country.
  We have a golden opportunity to let the people of this country keep 
more of the hard earned money that they make and they send up here to 
Washington. For the people's sake, let us not blow it this time, let us 
cut taxes on people all over this great Nation.

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