[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 109 (Wednesday, August 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF TAXPAYER RELIEF ACT

  (Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, today marks the 1-year anniversary of the 
Taxpayer Relief Act, an historic piece of legislation that consisted of 
the first significant tax cut since the Reagan tax cuts of the early 
1980s.
  Let us face it, the Taxpayer Relief Act would never have passed had 
it not been for a Republican Congress. Let us remember that the idea we 
could balance the budget and pass tax relief was ridiculed by our 
worthy opponents on the other side right here in this body almost daily 
not too long ago.
  Let us also remember that welfare reform would never have happened 
had it not been for the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. The 
IRS reform bill passed this summer. Not a chance if the Republicans had 
not held the majority. And last summer's Medicare reform legislation, 
which postponed bankruptcy from 2001 and 2010, it took a Republican 
Congress to push for Medicare reform in the face of the most constant, 
shameless demagoguery about good-faith efforts to reform Medicare.
  Mr. Speaker, elections do matter. Balanced budgets, tax cuts, welfare 
reform, IRS reform, and Medicare reform. That is the reality of the 
Republican Congress.

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