[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25556]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   HOUSE RULES ON TAX RATE INCREASES

  (Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I'm honored to serve as 
chairman of the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee. That subcommittee 
reviews tax legislation that has been referred to the Ways and Means 
Committee. We take this responsibility most seriously. Raising or 
lowering the tax burden on families and businesses has a real impact, 
both on those individuals and on the economy.
  I was concerned when I heard debate last week suggesting that the 
House had changed our procedural rules for considering tax increases. 
The gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Price) mistakenly stated that the House 
rules no longer require a supermajority for tax rate increases.
  The House rules on this subject are exactly the same as they were 
under the last Congress. The rule was written by the Republican 
majority back in 1997 and has remained unchanged.
  I simply wanted to ensure that the record was entirely clear on this 
subject.

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