[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 101 (Wednesday, July 16, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5306]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        THE REPUBLICAN TAX PLAN

  (Mr. STUPAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, the Republican majority has approved a tax 
plan that ignores the facts and ignores the wishes of the American 
public.
  When a U.S. Treasury report revealed that the Republican plan was 
light on relief for working Americans and heavy on tax breaks for the 
rich, the Republican response was that the Treasury Department had 
somehow cooked the books, and they marched on with their plan. When 
Democrats and 15 million taxpaying families were being cut out of the 
GOP tax plan, the Republican response was to redefine these families as 
welfare families, and they marched on with their plan.
  House Republicans are marching by themselves. A recent Wall Street 
Journal/NBC News poll shows more Americans agree with the Democrats 
than the Republicans on the budget and tax negotiations. This finding 
was supported by a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll.
  Mr. Speaker, it is clear that the only thing being cooked are the tax 
plans, the GOP tax plans that hurt working Americans and tell untruths 
about hard working American families. Tax plans that hurt American 
families shall be rejected by Democrats and America.

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