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James Whittier Parker: “Let me tell you one thing. I have watched the liberals talk about how much they love tax cuts now. Now they control the…”

On the recordJuly 9, 1997
Let me tell you one thing. I have watched the liberals talk about how much they love tax cuts now. Now they control the House over the last 16 years. They had a lot of opportunities. We could have had tax cuts, and believe me, conservatives, the Democrats and Republicans would have voted for it in a heart beat. But you know, none of those proposals ever got through committee, never got through subcommittee, never got through the Committee on Rules, never got to the floor, so it is somewhat disingenuous for them to stand up and talk about how much they love tax cuts when they had plenty of time to do it. They just did not quite do it.
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James Whittier Parker
New York
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Criticizing Democrats for not passing tax cuts during their control of the House.

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