I ran as a Republican, even though in the past I had voted both Democrat and Republican. I ran as a Republican because the ``we'' the gentleman was talking about was on the other side of the aisle. Not a single solitary Republican voted for that tax increase in 1993. That was passed with Democrat votes. I think that distinction is very important.
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It passed without a single, solitary Republican vote. I am sure the gentleman from Michigan remembers what I am talking about here. It is the biggest tax increase in American history.
That amendment that I brought to the floor to end the cow gas study was very quickly accepted down here. Some of our colleagues may not even be aware that we were spending lots of money, the taxpayers' money to study cow gas out here…
Along with every one of those 760 is a huge bureaucracy to run the program, and what is happening is the bureaucrats are getting the money that is supposed to be in the schools helping our kids.
We are now in surplus in both the general fund and in the Social Security fund. There is such good news on the economic front here.
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