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Bill Clinton: “This new tax program that has been proposed by the Speaker's Ways and Means Committee would penalize the working poor…”

On the recordJune 12, 1997
This new tax program that has been proposed by the Speaker's Ways and Means Committee would penalize the working poor and especially working poor mothers.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With the President's Advisory Board on Race and an Exchange With Reporters

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