Chuck Grassley: “you can still hear these words echoing from 4 years ago: ``I oppose Federal excise gas tax increases. It sticks it to…”

“you can still hear these words echoing from 4 years ago: ``I oppose Federal excise gas tax increases. It sticks it to the lower income and middle-income retired people in the country, and it's wrong.'' Four years ago those words were stated. These are not my words, Mr. President, these are the words of Bill Clinton who was running for President in 1992 and who was elected. Just 1 year later after that campaign, President Clinton proposed and won passage of Federal excise gas tax increases. In the process, he really stuck it to the lower income and middle-income retired people in the country and it is wrong, contrary to those very words he used in 1992. You might say, Mr. President, that he really stuck it to a lot of people more than just the folks who are retired. He stuck it to the entire population across the board--farmers, truck drivers, commuters, bus drivers, vacationers, boaters--you name it, Mr. President, President Clinton really stuck it to them. In fact, it was done along party-line votes. It was part of the largest tax increase in the history of our country. Not a single Republican voted for it. Democrats controlled the White House and both Houses of the Congress. Their fingerprints alone are all over the scene of this crime, the raising of the biggest tax increase in the history of the country. This President has a real problem with his record of saying one thing and doing another.”