John Shaw: “Mr. Speaker, we have just received, on our side, a brand new bulletin called the White House Bulletin. It provides in it…”

“Mr. Speaker, we have just received, on our side, a brand new bulletin called the White House Bulletin. It provides in it that "The White House reveals the Democrat 2000 Agenda." It is entitled "Families First, the 2000 Democrat Agenda." The ink on this is not even dry at this particular point, and already we are seeing the marriage penalty being defended. We are hearing a lot about budgets. What about the family budget? I have four kids. All of them are married, all of them have kids, all of them have mortgages, all of them have health insurance to pay. All of them have all of the expenses and all of the payments that we would expect to have all across this country. All of them are getting penalized because they are married, and paying higher taxes because they are married. That is wrong. It is like the earnings penalty. We should not penalize earning under social security. We are going to start with a hearing next week, and we are going to have this done, and it is going to be done with a great deal of bipartisan support.”