[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 26 (Thursday, March 12, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1116]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              THE TAX CODE

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, while Republicans are working to sunset the 
tax code and consign it to the ash heap of history, the President has 
announced that to do so would be irresponsible.
  Leaving the President's relationship with young interns aside, I 
think it is time for the President to come clean about another very 
disturbing matter: Just what is the President's relationship with the 
IRS?
  I am sure that the President would say that there is no improper 
relationship with the IRS, but the facts suggest otherwise. After all, 
why would the President defend the current tax code, all 7 million 
words of it? Why else would the President think that overhauling the 
tax code would be an irresponsible scheme? Does the President really 
believe that a flat tax would not be simpler, more fair, more 
transparent than the current tax code?
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for the President to tell us the truth about 
his improper relationship to the agency that presides over the most 
corrupt, most unfair, most outrageous tax code in American history.

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