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Rob Portman: I would also say that if you look at the budget rules when we are talking about taxes, this is just a carve-out for…

On the recordMay 19, 1998
I would also say that if you look at the budget rules when we are talking about taxes, this is just a carve-out for taxes, it just has to do with situations where you have a net decrease in taxes in a tax package. Right now, we are living under rules that I think, despite what the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) may believe about those rules, we are going to continue to have to live under, which say that every time you want to give tax relief, you have to mandate. It seems to me, again, it would be absurd, then, to require those mandates to be subject to this if we are requiring ourselves to mandate.
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

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Discussing budget rules related to tax relief during a House floor debate.

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