Rod Grams: “Mr. Speaker, just this week, Morton Kondracke wrote that President Clinton will propose a middle-class tax cut. In 1996.…”

“Mr. Speaker, just this week, Morton Kondracke wrote that President Clinton will propose a middle-class tax cut. In 1996. For those with short-term memory loss, that's the same promise he made in 1992--and the same promise he broke in 1993. Someone should tell the President that Republicans have already done his work for him. In March, we offered the Families First budget, which provided a $500 per child tax credit for working-class American families. It would have provided $25 billion annually in much-needed tax relief for those families who work hard, pay their bills, and raise their kids the best they can. It would have placed families at the head of the line for a change and left the Washington bureaucrats behind. But something got in the way of the middle-class tax cut of 1994. The Democratic leadership, said the tax cut cost too much--that Congress simply could not afford it--that the failed social programs of the Great Society were worth more than the American family. Mr. Speaker, that is simply shameful. American families need tax relief now. They cannot wait 2 years until the next election for Santa Clinton to arrive. And they cannot afford the budget resolution this body will pass today. Mr. Speaker, I say to my colleagues we should not lock the American family out of the House of Representatives again today. Vote against the budget resolution conference report.”