[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18458]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



             PRESIDENT CALLS FOR MORE TAX COLLECTORS AT IRS

  (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, it astounds me and most of my fellow 
Nevadans as well when we hear that the Clinton-Gore administration 
intends to veto the Treasury-Postal appropriations bill, a bill which 
this Chamber passed just last week; veto it simply because the bill 
does not give enough money to the IRS.
  The IRS is demanding $224 million more than their current $8.6 
billion budget to pay for 5,000 more tax collectors.
  Mr. Speaker, what the American people need is not more tax 
collectors; what the American people need is a tax break. The 
overwhelming tax burden currently placed on the American families is 
simply unconscionable and by vetoing the Treasury-Postal bill President 
Clinton also vetoes the repeal of the telephone excise tax, a tax 
passed over 100 years ago to fund the Spanish American war.
  Not one single Nevadan has ever asked me to fight for more IRS tax 
collectors. Americans do not want the bloated bureaucracy of the IRS to 
expand; they want and deserve a tax break.

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