[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 30 (Thursday, March 8, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H743-H744]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 VOTING FOR ACROSS-THE-BOARD TAX RELIEF

  (Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

[[Page H744]]

  Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that the 
President included maximum debt reduction, strengthening Social 
Security and Medicare and a $1 trillion budget reserve to pay for 
things that may come up, like agriculture.
  I am also very pleased that he is strengthening our families by 
lifting the burden of death tax that makes it hard to pass on the farm 
or family business to the next generation, addressing the marriage 
penalty and doubling the per-child tax credit.
  But today we vote on an across-the-board tax relief for our families. 
As I travel around southwest Minnesota talking to families and farmers 
and small businesses, they tell me that we need to give the economy a 
boost right now to keep it moving in the right direction. This will 
provide real money that families can use to pay down credit card debt 
or to spend a little less time working for the government and a little 
more time with their own families.
  It is because of this that this Kennedy will be voting for across-
the-board tax relief today.

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