Rod Grams: “I want to give my congratulations to the chairman of the Budget Committee and all the others who have worked so hard…”

“I want to give my congratulations to the chairman of the Budget Committee and all the others who have worked so hard over the last couple of weeks to work out an especially very important tax package, which I believe is going to be a step in the right direction of relieving some of the tax burden placed on American families over the last several years. So with that, Mr. President, I rise to express my strong support for the tax relief package that will be coming before the Senate tomorrow. I want to take this opportunity, again, to commend and thank the majority leader, Chairman Domenici, Chairman Roth, and the negotiators for the administration for all of their efforts to bring us to this historic point here today. Mr. President, when my good friend Tim Hutchinson and I went to the floor as freshmen members of the House in June 1993 to introduce a budget plan we called Putting Jobs and the American Family First, I could never have guessed the long road we would have to travel to reach the point we find ourselves at today--on the verge of enacting the $500 per-child tax credit that served as the centerpiece of our 1993 legislation.”