[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 101 (Wednesday, July 16, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5307]
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     TREASURY DEPARTMENT'S USE OF FAMILY ECONOMIC INCOME IS A FRAUD

  (Mrs. KELLY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. KELLY. Mr. Speaker, the Treasury Department's use of family 
economic income is bizarre, unusual, ill-conceived, unconventional, 
unorthodox, irregular, deceptive, misleading, dishonest, aberrant, 
divorced from reality, fanciful, factually challenged, preposterous, 
outrageous, inaccurate, unsupported by common sense, unconscionable, 
unsubstantiated, brilliantly calculated to distort the truth about the 
Republican tax plan and, alas, oh so typical of this administration.
  In short, the Treasury Department's use of family economic income is 
a fraud.
  Mr. Speaker, what I am hearing from the other side this morning about 
tax cuts for the wealthy is an insult to the middle class constituents 
that I represent.
  Can we just imagine my going back to my district and scornfully 
attacking middle class families as ``the rich,'' as somehow morally 
deficient for thinking they know better how to spend their own money 
than the politicians in Washington?
  I have gotten used to listening to the complete incapacity to 
understand elementary economics on the other side, but today marks a 
new low.
  A portrait of George Washington hangs behind us. I wonder what he 
would think about family economic income.

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