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Congressional Record—Senate S8456 S8456 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE July 17, 1998 like, in the morning business segment, support the Marriage Tax Elimination Act as for his suggestion so we can accommo- or perhaps the opening segment of the one step in the right direction. The current date the needs of our colleagues. tax code, while it still exists, should be used appropriations bill, to be able to dis- f patch that business and let whoever as a vehicle to promote social responsibility. It certainly should not be used in a punitive wants to talk, do it until they are ex- SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING manner toward the preeminent institution of THE CULPABILITY OF SLOBODAN hausted. marriage and family. You are speaking of a subject of some MILOSEVIC FOR WAR CRIMES How better could you describe it than importance, I admit that. I am sympa- Mr. D’AMATO. Mr. President, I ask that? ‘‘It certainly should not be used thetic to the issue you are raising. I unanimous consent that the Foreign in a punitive manner toward the pre- hope that you perhaps would allow us Relations Committee be discharged eminent institution of marriage and to do the things we would like to do in from further consideration of S. Con. family.’’ preparation to get the bill to the floor. Res. 105, and, further, that the Senate They go on to state: Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, re- proceed to its immediate consider- taining the floor, I am going to proceed We welcome the Marriage Tax Elimination ation. on forward with a discussion of the Act introduced today by representatives Dave McIntosh and Jerry Weller. This bill The PRESIDING OFFICER. The marriage tax penalty. I withdraw my can be a first step in recognizing in law that clerk will report. unanimous consent request if it is not the family is the first church, the first The legislative clerk read as follows: going to be agreed to. school, the first government, the first hos- A concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 105) The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- pital, the first economy, and the first and expressing the sense of the Congress regard- ator from Kansas has the floor. most vital mediating institution in our cul- ing the culpability of Slobodan Milosevic for Mr. BROWNBACK. I was proceeding ture. In order to encourage stable two-parent war crimes, crimes against humanity, and earlier, before allowing the Senator marriage bound households we can no longer genocide in the former Yugoslavia, and for from Nevada to speak before catching a support a tax code that penalizes them,’’ other purposes. plane. Fournier said. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there A number of groups have taken no- Then this is what Pope John Paul II objection to the immediate consider- tice of this issue of a marriage tax pen- said in a letter in a publication called ation of the concurrent resolution? alty and think that it is clearly time ‘‘Christian Family in the Modern There being no objection, the Senate and it is important that we at this World.’’ The Pope says this: proceeded to consider the resolution. time address this particular issue. families should grow in awareness of Mr. D’AMATO addressed the Chair. The Independent Women’s Forum has being ‘‘protagonists’’ of what is known as The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- sent a letter urging Congress to ‘‘put ‘‘family politics’’ and assume responsibility ator from New York. for transforming society; otherwise families the Tax Code where its rhetoric is.’’ Mr. D’AMATO. Mr. President, I be- I think that is a real interesting way will be the first victims of the evils that lieve we are about to take historic ac- they state that in the letter. ‘‘We they have done no more than note with indif- tion that is so important, because, to should put the Tax Code where the ference. date, what we have been doing is plead- Congress’ rhetoric is.’’ We talk a lot There are some pretty strong terms ing, negotiating, hoping while the about families, values, and virtues, and that they noted. world burns in front of us. When I say those sorts of institutions that make UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT ‘‘the world,’’ I am talking of tech- for a civil society. We talk endlessly Mr. D’AMATO. Mr. President, I won- nically the people in this war-torn area about those things. Yet, then we tax der if my colleague will yield for a sug- of Kosovo. them; we tax them disproportionately. gestion that I would propound a unani- It is incredible that 90 percent of the This group has the courage to be able mous consent. I have legislation that I population there are ethnic Albanians to identify, well, I guess then you guys know the Senator from Kansas is sup- under withering attack. In today’s New really don’t mean it. You will say one portive of, and we want the Senate to York Times, it graphically speaks thing and do another. be supportive. It would take me no The Independent Women’s Forum more than 5 minutes to ask that it be about it on the front page. urges Congress to put the Tax Code brought up under a unanimous consent As a witness to this, a former para- where its rhetoric is and eliminate agreement. military, former police officer in the marriage penalties. Serious steps to re- I will speak for no more than 10 min- Serbian police, said he can no longer form tax laws would mean real libera- utes, and probably less, because I have stay there and work there as he tion to those who work and those who had an opportunity to make my views watched innocent women and children may have to in the future. Marriage known; then, further, that the ranking being raped, killed, tortured and sav- aged—3 million people on the move, taxes can impose a nearly 50-percent member, Senator DORGAN, on the legis- marginal tax rate on second earners. lative appropriations, be given up to 15 ethnic cleansing, moving them out of They are saying in their publication, minutes so that he might make his their homes, moving them out of their most of which are spouses, obviously, opening remarks on the legislative ap- communities all because of one thing— this is a State-sponsored discrimina- propriations. That would be no longer all because of their ethnicity. tion, the unintended consequence of than 25 minutes, and thereafter the What we do today is the least we which is to discourage—they are saying Senator would retain the floor and the should be doing; and that is calling for here—women from entering the labor floor would return to him. the United States to, yes, utilize the force. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there provisions that the United Nations set ‘‘If Congress is sincere in improving objection? up in terms of Security Council Resolu- the lives of American families, it will Mr. BROWNBACK. Reserving the tion 827 creating the International eliminate tax loopholes that choke right to object, if at that point in time Criminal Tribunal. paychecks. Real support for the family I would be able to retain the floor, I am This man can and should be charged begins with tax reform.’’ willing to agree. as the war crime criminal that he is. There is a strong letter that they are Mr. D’AMATO. That would be the The documentation has already been citing that we ought to change our Tax agreement. chronicled in one of the best reports, Code along that line. Mr. BROWNBACK. I can then con- which I have submitted to this body. Let’s look at the Catholic Alliance, tinue with my statement and have it The conclusions are inescapable. It is and what they say. appear continuously in the RECORD. called ‘‘War Crimes and the Issue of The Catholic Alliance Endorses the Mar- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Responsibility,’’ prepared by Norman riage Tax Elimination Act. objection? Cigar and Paul Williams. It documents Their president announces support Without objection, it is so ordered. the systematic slaughter and use of for the Marriage Tax Elimination Act The Senator from New York is recog- paramilitary groups against innocent and the end of the marriage tax pen- nized for 10 minutes. civilians. There is no doubt that not alty. They say this: Mr. D’AMATO. I thank my colleague only did he know about that but that Catholic Alliance promotes the primacy of from Kansas for being gracious, and he continues to perpetuate this kind of the family as a matter of public policy. We Senator DORGAN, the ranking member, conduct. VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:16 Oct 31, 2013 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\1998SENATE\S17JY8.REC S17JY8 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY July 17, 1998 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S8457 To summarize briefly what Resolu- Most recently, Milosevic’s special po- that the motion to reconsider be laid tion 105 does, it says that we, the lice storm troopers have moved their upon the table, and that any state- United States, should publicly declare grisly activities to Kosovo where they ments relating to the resolution appear its considered reasons to believe that are visiting upon the ethnic Albanian at this point in the RECORD. Milosevic has committed war crimes; population the same horrors suffered The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without that we make the checks of informa- by the Bosnians and Croats. objection, it is so ordered. tion that can be supplied to the Tri- I would like to add a personal note. I AMENDMENTS NUMBERED 3212 AND 3213, EN BLOC bunal as evidence to support an indict- believe that I am one of only a very few The PRESIDING OFFICER.
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