[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 24, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4229]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TAX CUTS FOR ALL AMERICANS

  (Mr. GEJDENSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, the debate here is rather simple. The 
question is, as the elected representatives of the people of this 
country, is it our responsibility to make it easier for those who are 
walking into the showrooms where they sell Mercedes or people who are 
trying to buy a Ford Escort and send their kids to school?
  If we listen to our friends in the majority party, the Republicans, 
they believe that we were sent here to cut taxes for the top 1 percent 
by tens of thousands of dollars. The estimates are in news reports that 
the top 1 percent will get a $27,000 tax cut while the bottom 20 
percent will actually lose money on the proposal that came out of the 
Committee on Ways and Means.
  Mr. Speaker, this country is the most productive, wealthiest country 
in the world because we have provided opportunity at all levels of our 
economy, not just continuously shifting the burden to the poorest 
working people in America. Tax cuts and making it easier for middle-
class and working people are what this Congress ought to be about.

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