[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 111 (Thursday, July 31, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H6620]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    105TH CONGRESS MAKES HISTORY WITH TAX CUTS FOR WORKING AMERICAN 
                                FAMILIES

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, for the first time in 16 years, the American 
people are finally going to get a tax cut. To my friends on this side 
of the aisle who voted no in 1993, when President Clinton and the then-
liberal Democratic majority engineered the largest peacetime tax 
increase in American history, I commend you for your hard work and your 
perseverance. To my colleagues who came here with me in 1995, pledging 
to cut taxes, I share in your excitement. We have delivered on our 
promise.
  Finally, to the liberals in this House, I offer my condolences. I 
know how difficult this must be for you. After years and years of 
taxing and spending, the tide has finally turned. The American people 
are going to get to keep more of the money that they earn, and 
Washington bureaucrats are going to have to learn to do with a little 
less. That is the way it ought to be.
  Mr. Speaker, the liberal minority has ranted and raved for the last 
several weeks about tax cuts for the rich, totally bogus. Next year 
when tax time comes, millions of working class Americans are going to 
realize that what they heard from the liberals was not true. Let us cut 
taxes.

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