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Jack Kingston: “This Congress has brought us the balanced budget, that has cut taxes for the first time in 16 years, that has on a…”

On the recordOctober 15, 1998
This Congress has brought us the balanced budget, that has cut taxes for the first time in 16 years, that has on a bipartisan basis reformed Medicare, and on a bipartisan basis reformed welfare, with 40 percent of the people who were on it in 1994 now being off of it. This year we have accomplished greater drug laws, greater education laws, greater opportunities for our school kids, protected Social Security, modernized our military and our government. Next year we are going to go on to reduce taxes further, increase the quality of education and health care protection. It is an exciting time to be an American.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Highlighting legislative achievements of Congress during a speech.

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