On the recordMay 12, 2004
I do feel motivated to respond to my friend from Iowa's comments. I am sure it was not he that suggested there is hypocrisy on our side, but I want to make the record clear, because 2 weeks ago, Mr. Speaker, the Democrats voted 187 to 10 in favor of a fully paid-for marriage penalty tax bill. Last week Democrats voted 196 to 5 in favor of a fully paid-for alternative minimum tax relief bill. The only way you got us to vote for those tax cuts was after you rejected our very aggressive efforts to pay for those. You recall we got that vote, we took it to a vote, and overwhelmingly the Democrats voted to pay for those tax cuts, and we only voted otherwise after you rejected our ability to pay for them. But I need to remind my good friend whom I have served with now for several years on the Committee on the Budget that in 1997, the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nussle) voted for pay-go as applied to tax cuts.
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