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David Thomas: “I really do wish some Members, and we do not often do this, although we vote on it every day, would read the…”

On the recordMay 22, 2003
I really do wish some Members, and we do not often do this, although we vote on it every day, would read the Congressional Record, especially the day that we debated the tax bill in this House for the first time. Because included in that Congressional Record was a historic first. The bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation analyzed this tax bill, and they said it was going to create jobs, more than 900,000 jobs over the next several years. Read it.
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David Thomas
New York

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Discussing the importance of reviewing the Congressional Record related to a tax bill.

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