[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19456]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                DEMOCRATS ARE WRITING OFF RURAL AMERICA

  (Mr. HILL of Montana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HILL of Montana. Mr. Speaker, things are tough in rural America 
these days. Commodity prices, wheat, corn, soybeans, livestock, 
including cattle and hogs, are at near Depression level prices.
  The head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has said 
that Democrats are writing off rural America. That is evidenced by 
their vote this week against tax relief for American farmers and 
ranchers.
  Republicans have not written off rural communities. We are going to 
fight for them, because we know that these rural communities and the 
people who live in them represent bedrock American values of 
traditional family and hard work and individual responsibility.
  Our Republican tax bill eliminates the death tax. If we do not act, 
this could be the last generation of American farms and ranches, and 
the people that the Democrats say are rich because they may have high 
development values on their lands would qualify on their income for 
food stamps.
  Listen to the Democrats. They will put welfare over work. They will 
put government over taxpayers. They will put foreign markets over our 
domestic producers.
  We Republicans are going to fight for rural America, even though the 
Democrats say, give it up.

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