[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 69 (Friday, May 9, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H3863]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        VOTE NO ON THE TAX BILL

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, today this House will vote on the 
Republicans' wildly irresponsible tax bill which fails to stimulate our 
economy or create jobs, explodes the budget deficit and the national 
debt, and robs Social Security and other key priorities of crucial 
funding. Our Republican friends continue to make wild claims about this 
tax bill, but the American people need to ask one very simple question: 
Do I trust Tom DeLay and the Republican majority who said that we would 
balance the budget, create jobs, and get the economy moving 2 years 
ago? Or do we trust an individual like Mr. Buffett, the largest 
investor, perhaps, in America, who recently said that cutting taxes on 
corporate dividends, an idea incorporated in the GOP bill, unfairly 
favors the wealthy and doubted that it would stimulate the economy? 
That is Warren Buffett. That is not one of us. Democrats strongly agree 
with him, however.
  We offered a plan that is fast-acting, fair and fiscally responsible, 
a plan that would create five times, over a million jobs, as this GOP 
bill does.
  Reject this failed policy.

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