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On the recordJune 26, 1997
I want to relate a conversation, a personal conversation that I had with President Bill Clinton in April of 1995, standing in the little White House in Warm Springs, GA, the Georgia home of F.D.R., F.D.R., who was considered the working man and the little man's friend. As we were departing that day, I looked at the President, and I said, ``You know, sir, we have to look after the little man because the big man can take care of himself. But every now and then you have to give just a little something to the big man so he'll help the little guy.'' And the President was nodding in agreement. And I said, ``Mr. President, that's our tax bill, the tax bill of the 104th Congress.'' Little known to each of us that day, we would not be back with that tax bill but one time, just one opportunity to pass and accept it. But we are back again in the 105th Congress.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Discussing a personal conversation with President Clinton about tax policy.

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