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Jeff Miller: It was actually the Miller-Schumer-Kingston bill last year. Right. It was a 5-year phaseout. So it was not something…

On the recordApril 23, 1997
It was actually the Miller-Schumer-Kingston bill last year. Right. It was a 5-year phaseout. So it was not something that was going to happen immediately. I am a big believer that we need to phase these programs out so we do not really punish people unfairly on this. We have to be fair to the American consumer, who is the American taxpayer. We are losing these jobs. It is just not the right way of having a big government program. It no longer needs to continue to exist in this country.
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Jeff Miller
Florida

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Discussing the need to phase out government programs during a floor speech.

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