[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3929]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               TAX RELIEF

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, where are the old Democrats, like President 
John Kennedy, who favored tax cuts? The truth is that the 1960's 
changed the Democratic Party maybe forever. And now liberal Democrats 
and tax cuts go together like Dennis Rodman and the National Basketball 
Association Commissioner David Stern.
  So we have to rely on Republicans if average people are to have hope 
of a tax cut. The liberals were, meanwhile, busy building a great 
society on the backs of working people. President Reagan gave working 
people a break in the 1980's and passed tax cuts for everyone who 
brought home a paycheck.
  Well, now we have got a President in office that, as a candidate, ran 
on the idea of tax cuts for the middle class but soon changed his mind 
after getting elected. This is something that the new Democrats seem to 
have a habit of doing. So now it is up to the Republican Congress to 
try to get the same President to get a little tax relief to average 
American families.

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