Newt Gingrich: “I rise to remind my colleagues that tomorrow, part 2 of the budget agreement, the historic agreement that has enabled us…”

“I rise to remind my colleagues that tomorrow, part 2 of the budget agreement, the historic agreement that has enabled us today to have a great victory for the American people by saving money, by reforming entitlements, by saving Medicare, that that agreement goes into phase 2 tomorrow with a very, very important Taxpayers Relief Act of 1997. I want to take just a moment to remind my colleagues of the human side of the Taxpayers Relief Act of 1997. This is a bill which will provide more money for working taxpaying families with children; it will provide more money for folks who are going on to college and vocational and technical school; it will provide more money for families who have family farms or family ranches or family businesses and have the head of the family die and would potentially even lose that business to the IRS; and it provides for more resources to go to savings and investment and job creation, which is very vital if our welfare-to-work reform is going to succeed, because if we are going to ask people to leave welfare to go to work, we have to have enough economic growth, enough new jobs, in order to have the work for people to leave welfare to go to.”