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Lloyd Doggett: “Certainly it is important to point out they will freeze into place all of these special interests provisions, all of…”

On the recordApril 12, 2000
Certainly it is important to point out they will freeze into place all of these special interests provisions, all of these loopholes. The gentleman focused, I think, very eloquently on the effects of their proposal and has also noted that what we mainly have been dealing with here, as is the case around every tax filing day, is hot air from the Republicans. I would like to redirect the gentleman's attention from hot air to dirty air and another section that would be frozen into place, and that is section 527, which the gentleman joined with me last week in sponsoring legislation to address. Being from New York State, did the gentleman have occasion to see the ads that some Texans ran against Senator McCain there in New York State?
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

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Discussing tax provisions and campaign finance during a floor debate.

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