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On the recordMarch 11, 1994
I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. In the explanation just given by the gentlewoman from Hawaii, you have heard precisely, precisely the difference between the two budgets you have before you today. The gentlewoman from Hawaii just told you about all of the Government programs that the Kasich budget would cut. She is absolutely right. Programs would be cut. People would be helped. That is the big difference. We are attempting to help people, real working families, middle-class people; 134,000 kids in the gentlewoman's district would be eligible for this tax credit, $67.1 million of family tax relief would go to her district in Hawaii under the Kasich budget. That is the big difference here. They want to talk about all of the good Government programs that they want the money to go to, bigger and bigger Government, more and more bureaucrats doing things supposedly to help America. We want to talk about helping America by giving people tax relief, by giving people the ability to help themselves. That is the big difference here. There is a major difference between these two approaches: More and more big Government on behalf of the Democrat budget; the Kasich budget, the Republican budget, talks about helping people for real, helping families for real. And how do we do that? Not just with the tax relief. We help them because we put in health care reform. We help them because we put in welfare reform. We have crime reform in here.…
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Robert Walker
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Discussing the differences between the Kasich budget and the Democrat budget.

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