[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 16 (Thursday, February 26, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H633-H634]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   A TAX CUT FOR AMERICA'S CONSUMERS

  (Mr. DeLAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge the Congress to pass 
legislation that would give the average American consumer a 30 percent 
tax cut. We can

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do this without breaking the caps, without finding offsets, and without 
spending the surplus. We can do this without even going to a flat tax 
or consumption tax. We can do this by breaking up the electricity 
monopoly.
  The time has come to allow greater competition in the electricity 
industry. Giving consumers the power, the power to choose their 
electric company, will lead to a more efficient and cheaper electric 
industry. When we deregulated trucking and the airline industry and the 
telephone monopoly, the average savings to the American consumer was 30 
percent. We can do the same with the electricity industry.
  Let us give America's consumers the power to choose, and let us do it 
this year.

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