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Mark Neumann: “When you look back at Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and the failures to keep their promises and when you look back at the tax…”

On the recordJuly 15, 1997
When you look back at Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and the failures to keep their promises and when you look back at the tax increases of 1993, yeah, but we cannot control Washington spending, it is easier to take the money away from the people. Until we got a new group and we have been concentrating here in the present and all these good things that are going on, as we talk about change in education, as we talk about welfare reform, and we talk about being in the third year of a 7-year plan to balance the budget, we are on track, ahead of schedule, reducing taxes for the American people.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin
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Discussing budgetary reforms and tax reductions during a speech on the House floor.

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