[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 154 (Thursday, November 6, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H10111]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES

  (Mr. ROGAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGAN. Mr. Speaker, for the first time in American history, 
American families spend more in taxes than they do for food, clothing 
and shelter combined. Republicans in Congress are trying to do 
something about that. We are trying to fashion tax and spending 
policies that will return more money to working families that earned 
the money. We want them to keep more of what they earn rather than send 
their money to Washington for bureaucrats to spend.
  Republicans prefer to work with our Democrat colleagues in a 
bipartisan fashion, but it becomes increasingly difficult when the 
President of the United States labels tax cuts for families as selfish 
and says that Americans should be satisfied with a revived economy and 
``happy to pay for government services.''
  Our frustration grows when Democrat policymakers in Washington all 
the way down the line echo this sentiment of selfishness.
  For example, the administration's Deputy Treasury Secretary recently 
said that the Republican plan to reduce the death tax, which cripples 
family farms and businesses, is selfish.
  Unbelievably, the leader of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, Tom 
Daschle, said ``I do not think that people are overtaxed.''
  Mr. Speaker, the next time someone says there is not a dime's worth 
of difference between Republicans and Democrats in Congress on tax 
policy, I would suggest there is a dime's worth of difference: It is 
the taxpayers' dime.

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