Frank Riggs: “I take to the floor during morning hour to just bring Members' attention to very interesting developments yesterday that…”

“I take to the floor during morning hour to just bring Members' attention to very interesting developments yesterday that really signaled the first round in a national debate about reforming our Tax Code and moving our country in the direction of a fairer, flatter, simpler Tax Code and tax system. If Members will for a moment just compare the contrasting styles, the tone of the debate by the proponents and advocates on both sides of this issue. Yesterday two of our Republican colleagues, the House majority leader, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Dick Armey) and the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Billy Tauzin), spoke to three different groups back here in Washington. This was part of their Scrap the Code tour that they have taken on the road to cities around the country. Yesterday majority leader Armey, who was one of the leading congressional proponents of the flat tax, and the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin), one of the leading Congressional proponents of a national sales tax, a national tax on consumption, spoke to these three groups as part of what I think is a very rational, a very level debate about replacing the current Tax Code in favor of one of these two plans, both of which, in my view, would be simpler and fairer than the current system.”