[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 39 (Tuesday, March 31, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1786]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, last week several of my colleagues and 
myself stood in the well of this House, and we talked to the American 
public about the Republican leadership's lunacy and their crazy idea to 
impose a 30 percent sales tax on the American public. Lunacy. A 30 
percent increase in the sales tax, a national sales tax.
  In the course of that debate, I spoke out and I said that Republicans 
want to say that Democrats are not for tax cuts, and that we should not 
let them get away with saying that Democrats are not for tax cuts, 
because, quite frankly, Democrats have been standing on their feet 
talking about targeted tax cuts for working middle-class families in 
this country, and not the richest people in this country, which is 
where the Republican leadership and my colleague from Texas (Mr. DeLay) 
are coming from.
  The gentleman from Texas, Mr. DeLay got up to speak this morning, and 
I say to him, watch the debate on the floor before you distort the 
words of a colleague. The Congressional Record is being corrected on 
how they misinterpreted the comments that I made.
  We have the tape. You are going to have to eat your words.

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