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Mark Neumann: we appreciate the gentleman from Colorado being with us. As we started tonight, we talked about the incredible things…

On the recordApril 23, 1998
we appreciate the gentleman from Colorado being with us. As we started tonight, we talked about the incredible things, and I think my colleagues would all like to be home in their home districts where it seems that common sense has a tendency to prevail more so than it does here. I would like to jump to another topic that I find absolutely incredible. Over at the White House, the reason that there is a lot of people gone tonight is that they are having a party. They are celebrating the five-year reunion of the biggest tax increase in American history. Think about this. Out in Wisconsin we would celebrate tax cuts. We would celebrate lowering the tax burden on the American people. We would celebrate restoring Social Security and balancing the budget. But we most certainly would not be out there celebrating a tax increase on the American people. It is just absolutely incredible to me that they would celebrate a tax increase. For anyone who has forgotten 1993, I think we ought to remember exactly what happened in 1993.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin

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Discussing the celebration of a tax increase at the White House during a floor speech.

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