MICHIGAN, September
7, 2000 -- The small business group NFIB today
strongly criticized Michigan U.S. Senate
candidate and 8th District Congresswoman Debbie
Stabenow for her latest vote against the
interests of small business by her decision to
stand with President Clinton against full
federal death-tax repeal.
"Once again, Debbie
Stabenow doesn't get it," said NFIB Senior Vice
President Dennis Whitfield. "Today's
heartbreaking vote in Congress was another slap
in the face to hundreds of thousands of small
business owners and family farmers in
Michigan."
Earlier this summer, 65 Democrats
joined a strong Republican majority in the U.S.
House to pass a full federal death-tax repeal.
The Senate subsequently passed the bill, also
with strong bipartisan support. President
Clinton vetoed the bill last week, and today the
House came up short of the two-thirds vote
required to override the President's
veto.
"Research shows that death-tax repeal
would save small businesses hundreds of
thousands of dollars and could create as many as
200,000 new jobs a year," Whitfield noted. "It's
unfathomable that Debbie Stabenow would turn her
back on this bipartisan
legislation.
"Unfortunately, this is not the
first time Debbie Stabenow voted against small
business interests. As a member of the U.S.
House, she has compiled a miserable record on
small business issues, voting with small
business only36 percent of the time in the 105th
Congress and only 18 percent of the time in the
first half of the current Congress.
"Debbie
Stabenow voted against curtailing unfunded
mandates on business, against tax relief for
hard-working Americans, against speeding up the
phase-in of 100 percent health insurance
deductibility for the self-employed, against
quality health care for the uninsured, against
legal reform to curb frivolous lawsuits against
small business, and against measures that would
make it harder to raise our taxes.
"This is
not the kind of representation Michigan needs in
the United States Senate."
Contact: Matthew
Latimer,202.554.9000
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