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Joe Barton: “We should require a national consensus to raise taxes, and we should require a two-thirds vote. Hopefully, the people…”

On the recordApril 21, 1998
We should require a national consensus to raise taxes, and we should require a two-thirds vote. Hopefully, the people that were polled in the poll that the gentleman alluded to will call their Congressmen and Congresswomen, and tomorrow we will get a bipartisan vote that ends up the requisite two-thirds to pass this and send it to the other body.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Discussing the need for a national consensus and two-thirds vote to raise taxes.

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