[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 145 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10673]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             TAX REDUCTION

  (Mr. WHITFIELD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. WHITFIELD. Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago this House passed a 
modest tax reduction for hard working middle class Americans. President 
Clinton and the Democratic leadership vigorously opposed the tax 
reduction. They said they opposed it because they incorrectly, I might 
say, claimed it would take money from Social Security. However, in the 
last minute back room negotiations on the omnibus appropriation bill, 
the President and Democratic leadership are not expressing any concern 
for Social Security. Instead they want to spend billions more of 
taxpayer dollars for foreign aid, for their favorite environmental 
programs and for the education bureaucracy in Washington while we want 
to send it to local school boards.
  The President does not want to give the American taxpayers a small 
tax reduction. Instead he wants to keep the tax dollars in the 
government and let them spend money on programs he wants. Once again 
the President and Democrat leadership say one thing in public but they 
demand something entirely different in private negotiations.

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