[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 109 (Tuesday, July 29, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5923]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    EXCITING TAX CUTS FOR AMERICANS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 21, 1997, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon] is 
recognized during morning hour debates for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Madam Speaker, what a difference 4 years makes. Four 
years ago, this Congress was raising taxes on the American people, they 
were increasing spending, they were bankrupting Medicare, they were 
trying to socialize medicine, and they were expanding welfare. What a 
difference 4 years makes.
  What is going to happen in the next 2 days is so exciting, because in 
the next 2 days we are going to cut taxes for every single working 
American in this country. What a difference 4 years makes. We will cut 
spending; we will get a handle on many of these entitlement programs 
that have been running rampant; we will save Medicare from bankruptcy; 
and, more than that, Madam Speaker, we will stay on that glide path to 
a balanced budget, which is going to mean there is going to be a 
country, this United States, for my children and my five grandchildren, 
six grandchildren, excuse me, we just had another one, and that is what 
is so exciting about it, because we have been able to come together 
with the White House, with the Senate, and with this body and do what 
the American people finally want us to do. I am just so excited, I can 
hardly stand it. Let us get on to it. In the next 48 hours, we are 
going to do exactly what I have just outlined.

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