On the recordSeptember 18, 2000
Again what is important, I think history is important, what did happen, what are the actual facts. Again as we see on this chart here, for 40 years, the Congress where the Constitution sets up that the Congress, the House of Representatives specifically under Democrat control, or under anyone's control sets up a budget. They are the ones who author spending bills. It is interesting that there is reference to tax reduction or tax fairness as though somehow that is wrong. My good friend from Texas, just to respond to that, I do not think it is wrong to correct and have tax fairness for a young married couple who is married who has several children and yet they are penalized an average of $1,400 just by the fact that they are married. I also do not think it is wrong that farmers and small businessmen in the gentleman from Texas' district as well as my rural area in northern California who work hard all their lives, who would like to leave their families, their children their farms and small businesses, they do not get anything out of it, they are dead, but that they have to sell their small farms and their small businesses simply to pay the taxes. I do not think that is wrong. That is our priority.
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