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Kenny Hulshof: I would like to amplify the point by my colleague from Wisconsin and coauthor of this bill to sunset the sunset. It is…

On the recordApril 16, 2002
I would like to amplify the point by my colleague from Wisconsin and coauthor of this bill to sunset the sunset. It is interesting that a New York Times columnist, as he was commenting on the work that we had done, and finally we were moving toward repeal of the death tax, but as the gentleman noted, for a single year, 2010, and this New York Times columnist dubbed what we had done, the ``throw momma from the train act,'' because the only way to take full advantage of the death tax repeal was to throw momma from the train in the year 2010 because on January 1 of the next year, then here comes the death tax springing out of the grave, coming back to life.
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Kenny Hulshof
Missouri

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Discussing the repeal of the death tax during a floor speech.

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