[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 84 (Thursday, June 17, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H4291-H4292]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   REPUBLICANS SOLVE $4 BILLION PROBLEM WITH $150 BILLION EXPENDITURE

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, well, it promises to be yet another hot 
muggy day in Washington, D.C., so the Republican leadership are rushing 
to drag out a bloated tax give-away bill and rush it through before it 
begins to stink too badly in the heat and the light of day. It is 
rumored to be 4,400 pages long, but there are no printed copies 
available to Members of Congress, the general public, only lobbyists 
who wrote the bill.
  It is a $4 billion problem, and it will be solved with a $150 billion 
burden on the American taxpayer. Only in Washington, D.C. It has to do 
with U.S. corporations' taxes overseas, but this bill addresses Eskimo 
whalers, fishing tackle manufacturers, $9 billion for tobacco growers, 
and it is going to privatize tax collections in the United States, 
giving our most private information to the private sector bill 
collectors. Only in America do we solve a $4

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billion problem with a $150 billion expenditure; only in a Republican 
America.

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