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On the recordJuly 21, 1998
So, let me ask the Senator a question. If the code, in fact, benefits more families who get married--in other words, their taxes go down--than those who are penalized by getting married, the Senator from Minnesota is not suggesting that we want to change the code and make it so that it will be the opposite, is he?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Questioning tax code implications on marriage during Senate debate.

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