[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 28, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H69-H70]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             IT IS A NEW YEAR AND A GOOD TIME TO CUT TAXES

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, it is important that we not let any 
distraction going on here in Washington get in the way of our 
responsibility to provide tax reduction and tax reform to the American 
people. With Federal taxes now approaching 20 percent of the Gross 
National Product, the highest peacetime figure in American history, and 
a runaway tax collecting bureaucracy that strikes fear in the hearts of 
every hard-working taxpayer, this Congress, notwithstanding the usual 
White House roadblocks, must move forward with tax cuts, tax 
simplification and tax fairness now. If the President chooses to oppose 
our efforts, let him explain his opposition to the American people.
  Mr. Speaker, a lot of things have changed for the better since fiscal 
conservatives replaced tax-and-spend liberals in the House majority 
here in Washington: welfare finally reformed, a balanced budget 
actually in sight, family tax relief on the way. But more relief is due 
the American people. We need to move with dispatch. The American 
taxpayers deserve no less.

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