[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 25, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4380]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TAX RELIEF FOR HARDWORKING AMERICANS

  (Mr. GUTKNECHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTKNECHT. Mr. Speaker, we had our Committee on the Budget 
meeting that went late Friday afternoon, in fact it went well into the 
evening, and so I missed my flight and I flew home on Saturday. I did 
something on that flight back to Minnesota that I do not do very often. 
I looked out the window. I realized what a beautiful country this is, 
full of hardworking people, as the President says, who play by the 
rules, who pay their taxes, lots of good Americans.
  When I got home, we drove back from the airport, there was a garage 
sale in my neighborhood. There was a family that was piling out of 
their kind of beat-up car. They had four kids. The youngest one was 
sort of permanently attached to mom's hip, and I think some of my 
colleagues know what I am talking about, one of those little chubbers. 
I thought about our budget agreement, about our tax bill and I said, 
``It's for families like that that we did this.'' Because they are 
going to get $2,000 more to spend themselves, to invest themselves, to 
do what they want to do. And they are going to get help in terms of 
educating those kids.
  When we talk about this tax bill and about this budget plan, it is 
about preserving the American dream for those kids and it is about 
allowing those families to keep more, to spend more and save more of 
their own money.

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