[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 71 (Tuesday, June 4, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H3076]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       MAKE TAX RELIEF PERMANENT

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, today this House will consider two bills 
under suspension which will make parts of the tax relief package that 
we passed last year permanent. I encourage all my colleagues to support 
these bills and to support making last year's tax relief bill permanent 
in its entirety.
  By not doing so, we will force thousands of married couples to once 
again pay the unfair marriage penalty tax beginning in 2010. We will 
force thousands of small business owners to sell their companies for 
fear that they will not be able to afford the estate tax that will be 
reinstated.
  Americans approved of last year's tax relief package. Now it is time 
to make it permanent to ensure that Americans do not face the largest 
tax increase in history in just a few years.
  Mr. Speaker, this past week I met with many Nevadans, and this was 
the message they wanted me to bring back to Washington: Make tax relief 
permanent.

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