[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 86 (Thursday, June 17, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H4476]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                A REAL NIGHTMARE: DEMOCRAT TAX INCREASE

  (Mr. COOKSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COOKSEY. Madam Speaker, last night I did not sleep well. I did 
not sleep well because I had a nightmare. I dreamed that the Democrats 
had control of both Houses of Congress, and the worst part of it was 
even more disturbing than that. In this Democrat majority Congress, the 
Democrat leadership decided to actually pass into law what they said 
they would do; in other words, raise taxes.
  Millions of Democrats across the country are not liberals. In fact, 
many of them are quite conservative indeed; especially on fiscal 
issues. But the Democrat party in Washington, as most people know, is 
quite liberal, especially the Democrat leadership in Congress.
  The House minority leader, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. 
Gephardt), wants to expand the Federal education bureaucracy in 
Washington by cutting defense and raising taxes, and the minority 
leader in the other body, Mr. Daschle of South Dakota, stated just this 
past weekend on CNN's Evans and Novak that tax increases are on the 
table.
  That is why I did not sleep well last night.

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