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Joe Scarborough: I yield myself 30 seconds, just to thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for being concerned about that end of a…

On the recordApril 15, 1999
I yield myself 30 seconds, just to thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for being concerned about that end of a romance. Actually, fortunately, given the choice between the arms they would be driven into, with Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore and those of the left who are now proposing a new tax increase, I think over $100 billion in tax increases, 60 percent of those going to Americans making less than $50,000, I am quite comfortable that that romance will take us well into the 21st century.
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Joe Scarborough
Florida

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Discussing tax increases proposed by the left during a floor speech.

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