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Sam Brownback: “This is the right time and the right place. We have the wherewithal; we have the ability; we have the need to do this.…”

On the recordJuly 14, 2000
This is the right time and the right place. We have the wherewithal; we have the ability; we have the need to do this. This body should pass this bill. The President should sign this bill into law and eliminate the marriage penalty tax. I yield the floor.
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Sam Brownback
Republican · Kansas

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Advocating for the elimination of the marriage penalty tax during Senate debate.

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