[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 111 (Thursday, July 31, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H6620-H6621]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         A DAY FOR CELEBRATION

  (Mr. WHITFIELD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WHITFIELD. Mr. Speaker, today is a day of celebration. This House 
will take up an agreement reached between the Congress and the White 
House on a tax reduction package.

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  The last time Congress and the White House reached an agreement on a 
tax package was in 1993, and at that time taxpayers were not 
celebrating. They were not celebrating because that tax package was the 
largest tax increase in U.S. history.
  So today marks a much different kind of agreement. We are going to 
allow working men and women to keep more of their money and we are 
going to give less money to the U.S. Government.

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