On the recordMarch 26, 1996
Not only have they this year, that is absolutely true, and that is why the Committee on Rules acknowledged that when it waived the three-fifths rule. So it would not apply to any of the tax legislation that has come before us this year. But also if you look back, it applied to all of President Reagan's and President Bush's proposals. None of them would have been enacted if this constitutional amendment were in effect. So President Reagan could not have accomplished the 1981 tax cut, the 1986 tax cut, or any of the others in between. President Bush could not have accomplished the 1990 tax cut. We never could have come close to the reduction in deficit that we have experienced as a result of the 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. So it is hard to imagine where we would be if this constitutional amendment had been put into place, say, back in the 1970's or 1980's.
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