My good friend from Washington talked past the point. Those budgets assumed the alternative minimum tax. President Bush's budget assumes the alternative minimum tax. And I want to make clear that this is something that we are simply not going to do. We do not want to continue their practice of assuming this tax to be able to finance other priorities.
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