Political Quotes

“we heard already this evening, the very clear differences between these two budgets. These two budgets, the one presented by the White House, by the Clinton administration, and that one which has been prepared by the majority in the House and the Senate are very different in the philosophy they suggest for this country. I think our budget reflects what the American people said they wanted to have in this last election: less government, returning responsibility to citizens. But tonight I want to focus my comments on one part of this. That is the tax relief that we provide to families, the $500 tax credit that we give to families, an opportunity to keep some of the money, their hard-earned money, in their pockets. We say, ``Earn more, keep more, and do more yourself.'' Mr. Speaker, we say that one should not have to send that money to Washington, one should not have to give it up, one should not have to take it out of their family's well-being, out of their education, their health care, their housing and recreation. They should not have to send it to Washington to support Washington's programs. We say, ``Keep some of that money yourself.'' And that is why this is so fundamentally different from the President's proposal. The President's budget gives some very small amount of tax relief but then takes it all away, takes it all away in the year 2002 in order to balance the budget. It takes all the tax relief away. We say this tax relief should be permanent.”