[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10844]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 MAJORITY LEADER SPEAKS FROM THE HEART

  (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, the best you can say about the comments made 
yesterday by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Armey), the House Republican 
leader, of U.S. companies fleeing to offshore locations in order to 
reap additional tax benefits, is that he spoke from his heart, and the 
heart of the Republican Party.
  At the same time as his party was raising over $30 million up the 
street at the Washington Convention Center from groups like the 
pharmaceutical industry, Congressional Quarterly reported that he 
defended the actions of corporations to move their headquarters abroad 
to reduce their tax burdens. With all his party is taking from the 
Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, his remarks reveal the true 
heart of the Republican Party: Take our people's money before 
everything, before Social Security and Medicare, before prescription 
drugs, before jobs in America.
  So the best I can do is to thank the Republican leader for revealing 
the true heart of the Republican Party. It is the reason this Member is 
a Democrat.

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