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Paul Coverdell: this past Monday while I was on the Senate floor, I suggested that there should be a relevance between what public…

On the recordJune 14, 1996
this past Monday while I was on the Senate floor, I suggested that there should be a relevance between what public policyholders say in the pursuit of seeking higher office and what they do if they are fortunate enough to achieve that. In particular, I was alluding to the promise that this administration made to middle America that it would significantly lower the tax burden on the American middle class, the vast majority of our American citizens, but, in fact, by August of the first year in office, they had totally reversed that promise and had, in fact, increased taxes at historical proportions, resulting in most American working families today having a higher tax burden, having less of their paychecks in their checking accounts than at any time in American history. But the administration made another promise that it did try to keep, in all credit. They promised to revise the health care system in the United States. Indeed, when they came before the American people, their proposal was to totally federalize or take American medicine and have the American Government take it over.
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Paul Coverdell
Georgia

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Discussing the administration's broken tax promises and health care proposals.

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