[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 22, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5501]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE CHOICE IS CLEAR

  (Mr. MOAKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, this week Democratic and Republican 
negotiators will decide what sort of tax bill to send to President 
Clinton. I think the choice is very clear. We can give them the 
Republican bill, with handouts for the rich, or the Democratic bill, 
with help for the rest.
  As far as I am concerned parents working full time and making $30,000 
a year or less need a lot more help than corporate frequent flyers who 
use company jets for personal use and then want a tax exemption for it.
  The Democratic bill, Mr. Speaker, helps hospitals and will send 
214,000 more Massachusetts students to college, and it is a far better 
bill than the Republican bill, that will cut $70,000,000 from 
Massachusetts hospitals and do very little to help students.
  The Republican bill skimps on tax breaks for students. It 
shortchanges lower income working families, it gives enormous tax 
breaks to the very rich, and it gives handouts to the people who need a 
leg up, and for people making less than $93,000. It is a bad idea, Mr. 
Speaker. I urge my colleagues to reject it.

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