[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9200]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          TAX RELIEF LEGISLATION PROVIDING RELIEF TO AMERICANS

  (Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, Florida once again led 
the Nation in job growth during the past year with 261,000 new jobs. To 
continue this growth, Mr. Speaker, in Florida and the rest of the 
country, this Republican Congress passed a tax relief bill which 
ensures millions of American families, small businesses and seniors 
will continue to enjoy relief from budget-busting, economy-killing tax 
increases.
  Yet despite our sustained economic success and the shrinking 
deficits, Democrat leadership continues to endorse policies that would 
slam the brakes on our economic success and our remarkable job growth. 
Just last week, Mr. Speaker, House Democrats, like the minority leader 
and the ranking Democrat member of the Ways and Means Committee, voted 
for a massive tax hike on hard-working Americans, more than half a 
trillion dollars in increased taxes over the next 5 years, or enough to 
pay for all the expenditures of all the governments of the Western 
Hemisphere combined for an entire year.
  The American people, Mr. Speaker, want and deserve a fiscally 
responsive government, not the burdensome tax burden one that the 
Democrats continue to vote for.

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