[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5582]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICANS OBSCURED BY PARTISAN RHETORIC

  (Mr. NEUMANN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NEUMANN. Mr. Speaker, first I would respond to my colleague, the 
gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Kind], and invite him to join us in the 
National Debt Repayment Act for the good of the future and his young 
child, because that would force us not only to balance the budget, but 
after we reach that, pay off the Federal debt, so his child may inherit 
a nation debt free, and they would not have to make interest payments.
  But I also rise today to call attention to what is happening in 
Washington. When we listen to these 1-minutes back and forth, it is so 
partisan that people are forgetting what good is happening here for 
America and how much it means to our citizens.
  We are on the verge of balancing the budget probably by 1999, 2 or 3 
years ahead of schedule. Taxes are coming down for the first time in 16 
years, the $500-per-child tax credit, capital gains is coming down, the 
death tax is coming down, college tuition tax credit, all good news for 
America. Medicare is restored, so our senior citizens can again rest 
assured Medicare will be there for them in the future.
  I hear all this hysterical rhetoric about who is rich and who is not, 
but I can tell the Members this much, the folks I see on Sunday that 
are sitting there with three kids and the two parents next to them, one 
off in college and two kids still home, they understand a tax cut means 
they get to keep $2,500 more of their own money next year.

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