[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 25, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H4378-H4379]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            TAX RELIEF BILL

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, in the preamble to the Constitution, the 
people of the United States declared that one of the purposes of having 
a constitution was to ``promote the general welfare, and to secure the 
blessings and liberty to ourselves and our posterity.''
  Mr. Speaker, one of the best ways to promote the general welfare and 
secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our children would be 
to pass the Republican tax relief plan. Letting people who earn between 
$20,000 and $75,000 a year keep more of what they earn means that their 
standard of living

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goes up. It means that these people can better provide for their 
families, better save for their children's education, and better save 
for their own retirement.
  The Constitution speaks of providing the blessings of liberty to 
ourselves and our posterity, and reducing death taxes means the family 
farms can stay in the family, the family business can remain in the 
hands of those who helped build it.
  I urge my colleagues to support the tax relief bill when it comes 
before the House.

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