[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H6299-H6300]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               TAX RELIEF

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, it appears to finally be here, we have an 
agreement on tax relief for working Americans. Congress and the White 
House have come together and developed a package that will sustain a 
strong economy.
  Is it perfect or the best we could do? Probably not. But in a 
democracy we all give a little. So it is not perfect but tax relief is 
necessary and it is long

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overdue. The St. Louis Post Dispatch said it well when it said: Nobody 
asked wage earners in Missouri if they could afford President Clinton's 
1993 tax increase. The Republican tax relief plan puts some of the 
money back where it belongs, in the pockets of working Americans. The 
tax relief plans passed by the House and the Senate are not government 
handouts. This money belongs to the workers of Missouri and they should 
not have to come on bended knee to the Federal Government just to keep 
more of what they worked so hard to earn.
  It is the same for wage earners in Kansas in my district and across 
America, they should keep more of what they worked so hard to earn. I 
urge my colleagues to vote for the tax relief plan for working 
families. It is long overdue.

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