Gene Taylor: “In the 1,300 days that you have been Speaker, you will not let us vote…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2002

In the 1,300 days that you have been Speaker, you will not let us vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, yet you have added through your leadership $511,040,208,939 to the Federal debt. That is more debt than was accumulated from the day this Republic started to 1975. You will not give us an up-or-down vote on base closure. And now you will not give us an up-or-down vote on whether or not you want to reward your buddies who move their corporations overseas in a paper transaction, so while the average Joe in Mississippi pays his taxes, your big contributors do not have to pay theirs. That is just one more reason why you should not be Speaker.

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Gene Taylor

Mississippi

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Criticizing the Speaker for increasing federal debt and blocking votes on key issues.

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Gene Taylor: “In the 1,300 days that you have been Speaker, you will not let us vote on a balanced budget amendment to the…”

Editor's note · Context