Richard K. Armey: “I should point out that the tax provisions for individuals described by the gentleman from Texas, when found in the…”

“I should point out that the tax provisions for individuals described by the gentleman from Texas, when found in the House bill, represent some portion of or virtually 100 percent of the bill that goes to tax reduction incentives for growth through consumption and investment. The tax provisions he cited in the other body's bill represent only 30 percent of the total package, and 70 percent of the total package go on spending programs, programs we are talking about here. We are really blessed, Mr. Speaker, to have somebody from the great State of Nebraska here, most notably the gentleman from Omaha, Nebraska (Mr. Terry), because Omaha is one of the great meat processing centers of this great Nation. I am guessing that perhaps, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Omaha can help us wrestle with one of the detailed questions in the other body's proposal. They have a special proposal for buffalo meat, processing, growing, and slaughtering buffalo. There is also on the Great Plains of America a special hybrid animal called a beefalo, which is a crossbreed between a cow and a buffalo. The question we are asking, and where we are puzzled in terms of the fine-tuning of this other body's package, is if we give a subsidy for buffalo meat, do we only give, then, half a subsidy for beefalo meat? These are the kinds of details that have to be worked out when we are trying to spread the pork around.”