[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 96 (Wednesday, July 9, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4922]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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              MIDDLE-INCOME AMERICANS SHOULD GET TAX CUTS

  (Ms. KILPATRICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KILPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, in 1993, when President Clinton took 
over, the deficit was over $250 billion. In 1993, with the President 
and all the Democrats in the Congress, not one single Republican voted 
on a deficit reduction plan. Today that deficit is $45 billion. The 
deficit is indeed coming down.
  This Congress voted for an $85 billion tax cut. That tax cut goes 
only to people who are working and who pay taxes. That is the 
Democratic plan. The question is, who will get those tax cuts? We 
believe that middle-income Americans ought to get those tax cuts; that 
they ought to receive deductions for education for their children, that 
they ought to receive child tax credits. The Democratic plan says that.
  Do not be confused. The facts are simple. Who should get the tax 
cuts? Democrats and the President believe those tax cuts ought to go to 
middle-income people for deductions for their children's education and 
for child tax credits. Check the facts. Members should know what they 
have before them. We believe that $5 billion ought to go to hard-
working Americans and yes, people must work to get the tax credit.

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