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




                    TAX RELIEF FOR WORKING AMERICANS

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, well, there they go again. It is tragic, 
in a sense, to come to the floor of this House and hear such extreme, 
shrill and, yes, I am saddened to say, false rhetoric from liberals who 
constantly apologize for expansion of government and higher taxes for 
the American people.
  The sad fact is that the Treasury Department and other partisans, 
such as my good friend from Oregon [Mr. DeFazio], are using books that 
have been cooked so much they are charcoal broiled. How many families 
do my colleagues know who pay rent to themselves, owning their own 
homes?
  That is what our friends say the American people do. That is why our 
friends would say that a middle-income family earning about $40,000 a 
year somehow makes in excess of $75,000 a year and somehow is wealthy. 
It does not add up. Indeed, when we come to saving Medicare, we worked 
out commonsense reforms with the very administration that I think my 
colleague from Oregon [Mr. DeFazio] would champion.
  So let us return to a voice of reason, common sense, giving tax 
relief to working Americans. That is the key. That is what our plan 
does, 76 percent to families making between $20,000 and $75,000; and 
that is why the American people will prevail.

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