[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5584]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                SUPPORT THE REPUBLICAN TAX CUT PROPOSAL

  (Mr. HERGER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HERGER. Mr. Speaker, 2 million low- and middle-income Americans 
are waiting to see if this Congress will eliminate their tax burden. 
That is right, Mr. Speaker. According to the nonpartisan Joint 
Committee on Taxation, 2 million Americans will no longer pay income 
taxes at all if the Republican House-passed tax cut proposal becomes 
law; not 2 million rich Americans, as my Democrat friends from the 
other side of the aisle would have us believe, but 2 million struggling 
low- and middle-income Americans who barely make enough to support 
their families but still are forced to pay income taxes. Our tax cuts 
help 2 million Americans that most need it by taking them off the 
income tax rolls completely.
  Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to support the Republican 
House tax cut proposal that will truly benefit all Americans.

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