Here it is, the Winner is the President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton. Now as you know, it is always easier to lobby when you are telling the truth. And conversely it is a lot more difficult to bring people around to your position when you find it necessary to concoct sorts of fantabulous and incredible justifications for your policies. And that's what makes the President's winning this award so impressive, because he has managed to pull enumerable, amazing feats of persuasion without eliciting discernable skepticism even from our very smart, and alert and aggressive and truth promoting Washington press corps. And that is the House Republican tax package.
Republicans say that the package is designed primarily to benefit the middle class.
President Clinton and a lot of his co-workers say that the Republicans just want to provide a big tax cut for the rich. That probably includes a few people in this room. You are rich. But the Clinton Administration, through their Treasury Department, says no, that's not right. There are 31 million American families that are rich.