[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]




            A SIMPLE DEBATE: MORE GOVERNMENT OR MORE FREEDOM

  (Mr. RYUN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYUN. Mr. Speaker, what we are debating today is very simple: Do 
we believe, on the one hand, in more government, or, on the other hand, 
in more freedom?
  Throughout recorded history, from the Magna Carta to the Constitution 
of the United States, the struggle has been the same: freedom from 
government tyranny. Political freedom, economic freedom, religious 
freedom, the focus of the struggle changes, but the direction and the 
goal of the inspiration for the cause have always remained the same: 
The human soul desires freedom from government oppression, freedom for 
control of one's destiny, and freedom to worship one's God.
  The Republican agenda is an answer to that yearning. Mr. Speaker, we 
will meet one of those yearnings if we pass, when we pass, the Taxpayer 
Relief Act of 1997. The hard-working people of my district, the Second 
District of Kansas, are yearning to keep more of what they earn. After 
16 years of wasteful government spending, it is high time that we grant 
them this freedom.

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