[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13278]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      AMERICANS SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE BETTERMENT OF THE COUNTRY

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, last night this House was kept in session to 
a ridiculously late hour because there was a divide on the Republican 
side of the aisle over our Interior bill, where we are supposed to be 
finding the money to keep our parks open with enough bathrooms and 
visitor centers and parking spaces to accommodate a growing American 
public.
  They were mad because they said there was not enough money. Well, let 
me contend where they should look for the money. They should not look 
for the money in the Committee on Appropriations. They should go back 
to the tax committee and figure out who they gave the money to.
  Richey Rich is going to make $20 million this year in our country. 
And if we look at the buy-out packages that they permitted to the chief 
executive officers in this country and the tax breaks alone in the Bush 
tax bill, the tax bill to Richey Rich will amount to $712,800 this year 
because his marginal rate was reduced to 3.6 percent. We might say, 
gosh, he is only going to make $19.8 million this year, at the same 
time as we struggle for pennies and are forced to increase fees at our 
national parks across this country.
  The answer is not inside the Subcommittee on Interior, the answer is 
to go back to the tax committee and make every single American 
contribute to the betterment of this Republic.

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