[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 8, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3645-S3649]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND RESCISSIONS ACT OF 1995

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.


                     Amendment No. 326, as Modified

  Mr. MACK. Mr. President, is the pending business the Helms amendment?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is correct.
  Mr. MACK. The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is correct.
   [[Page S3646]] Mr. MACK. Thank you, Mr. President.
  Mr. President, the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act is 
designed to once and for all bring about the end of the Castro regime 
in Cuba.
  Senator Dole and Senator Helms and my colleagues were forced to act 
quickly to bring this measure to the Senate floor last night because 
word had seeped out of the Clinton administration that administration 
officials have recommended that the President move to lift certain 
sanctions on the Castro regime and hold out a list of steps leading to 
bilateral talks between the United States and Cuba.
  The introduction of this bill in Congress is a message to the 
President: Just do not do it. Just do not do it.
  In fact, people are saying that what has happened is there is a trial 
balloon that is being floated out there to see how it might sell, how 
it might fly. Well, I would suggest that the President of the United 
States himself ought to pop that balloon. This is not the time to be 
talking about opening a discussion with Fidel Castro and entering into 
normal relations.
  What possible justification could the administration have for 
removing even the slightest pressure from the Castro regime? How can 
anyone argue that the way to end repression in Cuba is to end the 
regime's isolation when Cuba will not even allow the visit of one man? 
That one man is an individual by the name of Carl-Johan Groth, the U.N. 
special rapporteur assigned to investigate Cuba's human rights records.
  Let me put that in perspective. The United Nations has assigned an 
individual as a result of a series of resolutions that were passed in 
Geneva condemning Fidel Castro and Cuba for its human rights 
violations. For years they have been trying to get someone into Cuba to 
investigate these human rights violations and Cuba has denied entrance, 
access, to Cuba of this U.N. special rapporteur.
  Groth, though denied an entry visa, has made a--I am quoting now from 
an editorial in the Miami Herald of 4 days ago--``harrowing compilation 
of violations of political and civil rights, arbitrary arrests, 
intimidation of the opposition and political prisoners kept in woeful 
conditions.''
  His report describes the July sinking of a tugboat full of refugees 
fleeing Cuba. The tug, attacked off the Cuban coast, sank. Most aboard, 
including men, women, and children drowned.
  I think my colleagues will remember that we discussed this issue on 
the floor of the Senate last year.
  Fidel Castro puts his faith in the tirelessness of some policymakers 
who, not living in the hell Castro has created, search for new avenues 
for negotiation, dialog, and compromise with a dictator who has 
outlasted administration after administration. I say to those who want 
to find those new avenues, when will they ever learn?
  I put my faith in the Cuban people who continue to struggle and hope 
that we here in the United States will not forget them.
  On a personal note, I want to build on that last comment. I have the 
opportunity from time to time to speak with refugees or defectors from 
Cuba. And one of the questions that I always ask them is, ``Should the 
United States maintain this embargo? Should the United States still 
attempt to isolate Fidel Castro because some people say there is a 
hardship that we are creating on the people of Cuba?''
  Every single one that I have spoken to says, you cannot back away. 
You cannot lift that embargo because, if you do, the message you are 
sending to us is you have abandoned us. And in fact, it is the message 
that comes with the result of the embargo that is beginning to embolden 
us that gives us hope that maybe there is an opportunity that we can 
change things.
  So the worst possible thing that we could do would be what is being 
suggested by those in the administration that now it is time to lift 
some of the embargo, that now is the time to begin to open a dialog, a 
terrible, terrible mistake.
  I also remind my colleagues that last year--in fact, I believe it was 
the last day of the last Congress--there was a hearing in the Senate 
Foreign Relations Committee, a hearing that was designed to deliver the 
message that now is the time to lift the embargo, open up dialog, move 
to normalization.
  The amazing thing, as I sat there at that hearing and I testified, 
was that it was the day after President Mandela had addressed a joint 
session of the Congress of the United States and told us if it had not 
been for the commitment of the United States, and specifically, he 
said, the United States Congress, to the isolation of the regime in 
South Africa, his people and he would not be free. And for the people 
who supported that to turn around today and say, ``Oh, we can't follow 
the same approach with Cuba and Fidel Castro,'' makes absolutely, 
positively no sense.
  So as I say, in my opinion, the President of the United States ought 
to embrace the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act and he ought 
to pop the balloon that has been floated by those in the 
administration.
  This is not the time for us to weaken our resolve. We need to 
continue to send that message to the people of Cuba--that we have not 
forgotten them, that we will not forget them, and that this country is 
united behind the idea of freedom and democracy returning to that tiny 
little island south of Florida.
  I yield the floor.
  Mr. COVERDELL addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Georgia.
  Mr. COVERDELL. Mr. President, first I want to commend my colleague 
from Florida, who has perhaps more personal knowledge regarding Cuba 
and its effect on our country than many of the other Members here in 
this body. I appreciate his remarks.
  I would like to elaborate on the comments that he has made as they 
relate to certain suggestions from the administration that we should 
enter into a new era with Cuba, one in which we ease and/or normalize 
relations.
  I would like to read from The Washington Post, March 7. It says:

       President Clinton's foreign policy advisers are 
     recommending he take steps toward easing relations with Cuba 
     by revoking some economic sanctions adopted against the 
     nation in August.
       The time has come, some U.S. officials believe, to test 
     whether Castro is willing to make deep economic and political 
     reforms, a senior administration official said.

  Mr. President, my colleague from Florida has, I think, made a very 
good case that indeed this is not the time--not the time--to ease 
sanctions.
  In Fidel Castro, we have a dictator; in Fidel Castro, we have 
empirical evidence of continued human rights violations, torture, 
murder, extended imprisonment.
  Mr. President, in Fidel Castro, we have an avowed enemy of the United 
States of America, a man who has proliferated hostility throughout the 
hemisphere to the country, a man who has made no suggestion to us that, 
given new resources, they, too, would not be turned against the United 
States of America, a man whose history is riddled with attacks on this 
country and whose history, in contemporary terms, has been avowed 
hostility to the United States.
  Mr. President, there has to be some sense of linkage or continuity in 
the way in which we engage this hemisphere.
  If we could just step back for a moment, in very recent terms, we 
have just imposed the harshest of sanctions possible on a little 
country in the same region that offered no threat to the United 
States--Haiti; massive sanctions on the little country of Haiti. Now, 
Cuba is a threat. We could never argue that Haiti was. But the 
sanctions were harsh and strict and with effect.
  Mr. President, in addition, we had an alleged dictatorship in Haiti, 
and so we sent an invasion to Haiti. We have landed on Haiti's soil 
with United States troops and personnel to remove the dictatorship and 
to impose or reimpose a democracy.
  I may be missing something here, but I cannot get the connection with 
sanctions on Haiti, an invasion in Haiti, the expenditure of millions 
on preserving a new democracy and, in the same breath, I am reading in 
the Washington Post that, with Cuba, we should relieve the sanctions 
and engage in a dialog, as if we had a partner off our shores.
  You know, we are the only world power. We are the dominant figure in 
this hemisphere. There has to be a logic and a connection about the 
way 
[[Page S3647]] we communicate to our own hemisphere and the world. 
There is no logic at this time to follow the suggestions that have been 
floated by this administration to alleviate the sanctions on Cuba.
  Mr. President, I yield the floor.
  Mr. HOLLINGS addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Carolina.
  Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, let me join in the remarks of the 
distinguished Senator from Georgia and the distinguished Senator from 
Florida, and commend my colleague from North Carolina, Senator Helms.
  I have heard, I do not know where, stated that ``The sands of history 
bleach the bones of countless thousands who, on the eve of victory, 
hesitated and, having hesitated, died.'' Such is the case with Cuba. 
The sanctions are working.
  Now is not the time to get fanciful ideas of world policy and peace 
on Earth. Now is the time to look at the realities of this particular 
situation.
  If Castro would renounce communism and replace it with perestroika in 
Cuba, as Gorbachev did in Russia, it would be a different thing. But 
instead, Castro says, ``Oh, no; I have let tourists in, let the farmers 
sell to keep the Communist system afloat.''
  Mr. President, I just do not believe in financing the opposition. I 
almost am tempted to digress on the subject of Mexico, but I will 
attest to that tomorrow before the distinguished Banking Committee.
  Enough on that particular point, Mr. President. I see the 
distinguished chairman of the Appropriations Committee is ready to move 
along on this subject.


                             BUDGET CRISIS

  Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, before yielding the floor, I cannot let 
pass two particular items that occurred here this morning.
  One was made by my friend, the distinguished chairman of the Budget 
Committee. He claimed that the President had ``taken a walk'' with 
respect to budgetary matters.
  Now, Mr. President, let's set the record straight. In the last 12 
years, we have seen the ills of our reckless fiscal policies manifested 
in exorbitant, extravagant, obsessive budget deficits. But, when 
Members talk about who it was who ``took a walk,'' certainly it was not 
President Clinton. He was not even here.
  Talk about taking a walk, when the current President came to town and 
inherited a financial basket case of a nation, it was he who had the 
courage and willingness--not walking, but working--to put in a $500 
billion deficit reduction package that included taxes.
  It was not unfair. It was really making things more fair by proposing 
the cuts and revenues needed to reduce the deficit. As part of that 
plan, he put in motion a program that is over half complete of reducing 
272,000 employees from the Federal work force. When complete will have 
the smallest Federal work force since the Kennedy administration, and 
for what? To balance the budget, not walk.
  Mr. President, I remember to December 18, 1994, when the 
distinguished Senator from New Mexico and his House counterpart, 
Congressman Kasich were on ``Meet the Press.'' At that time they were 
crowing. They were going have three budgets in January, ready, willing, 
and able to go with the understanding that we would put the spending 
cuts in the bank to pay for tax cuts. But we did not get those spending 
cuts in January. We did not get those spending cuts in February. And 
March is marching by.
  Mr. President, before they talk about the wonderful record that 
President Clinton made year before last without a single Republican 
vote in the Senate or the House of Representatives, we should 
straighten the history about who is walking and who is talking. Where 
is the budget?
  I remember my friend, former Senator Hart from Colorado, wanting to 
know, ``where's the beef?'' It's high time we asked, ``Where's the 
budget?'' I outlined one in January to show the hard task ahead.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

           Hollings Releases Realities on Truth in Budgeting

       Reality No. 1: $1.2 trillion in spending cuts is necessary.
       Reality No. 2: There aren't enough savings in entitlements. 
     Have welfare reform, but a jobs program will cost; savings 
     are questionable. Health reform can and should save some, but 
     slowing growth from 10 to 5 percent doesn't offer enough 
     savings. Social Security won't be cut and will be off-budget 
     again.
       Reality No. 3: We should hold the line on the budget on 
     Defense; that would be no savings.
       Reality No. 4: Savings must come from freezes and cuts in 
     domestic discretionary spending but that's not enough to stop 
     hemorrhaging interest costs.
       Reality No. 5: Taxes are necessary to stop hemorrhage in 
     interest costs.

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                                               1996            1997            1998            1999            2000            2001            2002     
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Deficit CBO Jan. 1995 (using trust                                                                                                                      
 funds).................................             207             224             225            253             284             297             322 
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Freeze discretionary outlays after 1998.               0               0               0            -19             -38             -58             -78 
Spending cuts...........................             -37             -74            -111           -128            -146            -163            -180 
Interest savings........................              -1              -5             -11            -20             -32             -46             -64 
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    Total savings ($1.2 trillion).......             -38             -79            -122           -167            -216            -267            -322 
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Remaining deficit using trust funds.....             169             145             103             86              68              30               0 
Remaining deficit excluding trust funds.             287             264             222            202             185             149             121 
5 percent VAT...........................              96             155             172            184             190             196             200 
Net deficit excluding trust funds.......             187              97              27            (17)            (54)           (111)           (159)
Gross debt..............................           5,142           5,257           5,300          5,305           5,272           5,200           5,091 
Average interest rate on debt (percent).             7.0             7.1             6.9            6.8             6.7             6.7             6.7 
Interest cost on the debt...............             367             370             368            368             366             360             354 
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Note.--Figures are in billions. Figures don't include the billions necessary for a middle-class tax cut.                                                


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         Nondefense discretionary spending cuts            1996    1997 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Space station...........................................   2.1     2.1  
Eliminate CDBG..........................................   2.0     2.0  
Eliminate low-income home energy assistance.............   1.4     1.5  
Eliminate arts funding..................................   1.0     1.0  
Eliminate funding for campus based aid..................   1.4     1.4  
Eliminate funding for impact aid........................   1.0     1.0  
Reduce law enforcement funding to control drugs.........   1.5     1.8  
Eliminate Federal wastewater grants.....................   0.8     1.6  
Eliminate SBA loans.....................................   0.21    0.282
Reduce Federal aid for mass transit.....................   0.5     0.1  
Eliminate EDA...........................................   0.02    0.1  
Reduce Federal rent subsidies...........................   0.1     0.2  
Reduce overhead for university research.................   0.2     0.3  
Repeal Davis-Bacon......................................   0.2     0.5  
Reduce State Dept. funding and end misc. activities.....   0.1     0.2  
End P.L. 480 title I and III sales......................   0.4     0.6  
Eliminate overseas broadcasting.........................   0.458   0.570
Eliminate the Bureau of Mines...........................   0.1     0.2  
Eliminate expansion of rural housing assistance.........   0.1     0.2  
Eliminate USTTA.........................................   0.012   0.16 
Eliminate ATP...........................................   0.1     0.2  
Eliminate airport grant in aids.........................   0.3     1.0  
Eliminate Federal highway demonstration projects........   0.1     0.3  
Eliminate Amtrak subsidies..............................   0.4     0.4  
Eliminate RDA loan guarantees...........................   0.0     0.1  
Eliminate Appalachian Regional Commission...............   0.0     0.1  
Eliminate untargeted funds for math and science.........   0.1     0.2  
Cut Federal salaries by 4 percent.......................   4.0     4.0  
Charge Federal employees commercial rates for parking...   0.1     0.1  
Reduce agricultural research extension activities.......   0.2     0.2  
Cancel advanced solid rocket motor......................   0.3     0.4  
Eliminate legal services................................   0.4     0.4  
Reduce Federal travel by 30 percent.....................   0.4     0.4  
Reduce energy funding for Energy Technology Develop.....   0.2     0.5  
Reduce Superfund cleanup costs..........................   0.2     0.4  
Reduce REA subsidies....................................   0.1     0.1  
Eliminate postal subsidies for nonprofits...............   0.1     0.1  
Reduce NIH funding......................................   0.5     1.1  
Eliminate Federal Crop Insurance Program................   0.3     0.3  
Reduce Justice State-local assistance grants............   0.1     0.2  
Reduce export-import direct loans.......................   0.1     0.2  
Eliminate library programs..............................   0.1     0.1  
Modify Service Contract Act.............................   0.2     0.2  
Eliminate HUD special purpose grants....................   0.2     0.3  
Reduce housing programs.................................   0.4     1.0  
Eliminate Community Investment Program..................   0.1     0.4  
Reduce Strategic Petroleum Program......................   0.1     0.1  
Eliminate Senior Community Service Program..............   0.1     0.4  
Reduce USDA spending for export marketing...............   0.02    0.02 
Reduce maternal and child health grants.................   0.2     0.4  
Close veterans hospitals................................   0.1     0.2  
Reduce number of political employees....................   0.1     0.1  
Reduce management costs for VA health care..............   0.2     0.4  
Reduce PMA subsidy......................................   0.0     1.2  
Reduce below cost timber sales..........................   0.0     0.1  
Reduce the legislative branch 15 percent................   0.3     0.3  
Eliminate Small Business Development Centers............   0.056   0.074
Eliminate minority assistance score, small business                     
 interstate and other technical assistance programs,                    
 women's business assistance, international trade                       
 assistance, empowerment zones..........................   0.033   0.046
Eliminate new State Department construction projects....   0.010   0.023
Eliminate Int'l Boundaries and Water Commission.........   0.013   0.02 
Eliminate Asia Foundation...............................   0.013   0.015
Eliminate International Fisheries Commission............   0.015   0.015
Eliminate Arms Control Disarmament Agency...............   0.041   0.054
Eliminate NED...........................................   0.014   0.034
Eliminate Fulbright and other international exchanges...   0.119   0.207
Eliminate North-South Center............................   0.002   0.004
Eliminate U.S. contribution to WHO, OAS, and other                      
 international organizations including the United                       
 Nations................................................   0.873   0.873
Eliminate participation in U.N. peacekeeping............   0.533   0.533
Eliminate Byrne grant...................................   0.112   0.306
Eliminate Community Policing Program....................   0.286   0.780


                                                                        
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         Nondefense discretionary spending cuts            1996    1997 
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Moratorium on new Federal prison construction...........   0.208   0.140
Reduce coast guard 10 percent...........................   0.208   0.260
Eliminate Manufacturing Extension Program...............   0.03    0.06 
Eliminate coastal zone management.......................   0.03    0.06 
Eliminate national Marine sanctuaries...................   0.007   0.012
Eliminate climate and global change research............   0.047   0.078
Eliminate national sea grant............................   0.032   0.054
Eliminate State weather modification grant..............   0.002   0.003
Cut weather service operations 10 percent...............   0.031   0.051
Eliminate regional climate centers......................   0.002   0.003
Eliminate Minority Business Development Agency..........   0.022   0.044
Eliminate Public Telecommunications Facilities Program                  
 grant..................................................   0.003   0.016
Eliminate children's educational television.............   0.0     0.002
Eliminate national information infrastructure grant.....   0.001   0.032
Cut Pell grants 20 percent..............................   0.250   1.24 
Eliminate education research............................   0.042   0.283
Cut Head Start 50 percent...............................   0.840   1.8  
Eliminate meals and services for the elderly............   0.335   0.473
Eliminate title II social service block grant...........   2.7     2.8  
Eliminate community services block grant................   0.317   0.470
Eliminate rehabilitation services.......................   1.85    2.30 
Eliminate vocational education..........................   0.176   1.2  
Eliminate chapter 1 20 percent..........................   0.173   1.16 
Reduce special education 20 percent.....................   0.072   0.480
Eliminate bilingual education...........................   0.029   0.196
Eliminate JTPA..........................................   0.250   4.5  
Eliminate child welfare services........................   0.240   0.289
Eliminate CDC Breast Cancer Program.....................   0.048   0.089
Eliminate CDC AIDS Control Program......................   0.283   0.525
Eliminate Ryan White AIDS Program.......................   0.228   0.468
Eliminate maternal and child health.....................   0.246   0.506
Eliminate Family Planning Program.......................   0.069   0.143
Eliminate CDC Immunization Program......................   0.168   0.345
Eliminate Tuberculosis Program..........................   0.042   0.087
Eliminate agricultural research service.................   0.546   0.656
Reduce WIC 50 percent...................................   1.579   1.735
Eliminate TEFAP:                                                        
    Administrative......................................   0.024   0.040
    Commodities.........................................   0.025   0.025
Reduce cooperative State research service 20 percent....   0.044   0.070
Reduce animal plant health inspection service 10 percent   0.036   0.044
Reduce food safety inspection service 10 percent........   0.047   0.052
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    Total...............................................  36.942  58.407
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Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, when Members talk of taking walks and 
waving white flags, what they are really angry about is that a large 
part of their budget plan has disappeared. I will ask unanimous consent 
at this time that the GOP alternative deficit reduction and tax relief 
plan of the year before last be included in the Record.
  There being no objection, the plan was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

    GOP Alternative: Deficit Reduction and Tax Relief--Slashing the 
                  Deficit, Cutting Middle Class Taxes

       The Republican alternative budget will reduce the deficit 
     $318 billion over the next five years--$287 billion in policy 
     savings and $31 billion from interest savings. This is $322 
     billion more in deficit reduction than the President proposes 
     and $303 billion more in deficit reduction than the House-
     passed resolution contains.
       Moreover, the GOP alternative budget helps President 
     Clinton achieve two of his most important campaign promises--
     to cut the deficit in half in four years and provide a 
     middle-class tax cut. The GOP plan:
       Reduces the deficit to $99 billion in 1999. This is $106 
     billion less than the 1999 deficit projected under the 
     Clinton budget.
       Even under this budget federal spending will continue to 
     grow.
       Total spending would increase from $1.48 trillion in FY 
     1995 to more than $1.7 trillion in FY 1999.
       Medicare would grow by 7.8-percent a year rather than the 
     projected 10.6-percent. Medicaid's growth would slow to 8.1-
     percent annually rather than the projected 12-percent a year 
     growth.
       It increases funding for President Clinton's defense 
     request by the $20 billion shortfall acknowledged by the 
     Pentagon.
       Provides promised tax relief to American families and small 
     business:
       Provides tax relief to middle-class families by providing a 
     $500 tax credit for each child in the household. The 
     provision grants needed tax relief to the families of 52 
     million American children. The tax credit provides a typical 
     family of four $80 every month for family expenses and 
     savings.
       Restores deductibility for interest on student loans.
       Indexes capital gains for inflation and allows for capital 
     loss on principal residence.
       Creates new incentives for family savings and investments 
     through new IRA proposals that would allow penalty free 
     withdrawals for first time homebuyers, educational and 
     medical expenses.
       Establishes new Individual Retirement Account for 
     homemakers.
       Extends R&E tax credit for one-year and provides for a one-
     year exclusion of employer provided educational assistance.
       Adjusts depreciation schedules for inflation (neutral cost 
     recovery).
       Tax provisions result in total tax cut of $88 billion over 
     five years.
       Fully funds the Senate Crime Bill Trust Fund, providing $22 
     billion for anti-crime measures over the next five years. The 
     Clinton budget does not. The House-passed budget does not. 
     The Chairman's mark does not.
       Accepts the President's proposed $113 billion level in 
     nondefense discretionary spending reductions and then secures 
     additional savings by freezing aggregate nondefense spending 
     for five years.
       Accepts the President's proposed reductions in the medicare 
     program and indexes the current $100 annual Part ``B'' 
     deductible for inflation. Total medicare savings would reach 
     $80 billion over the next five years.
       Achieves $64 billion in medicaid savings over the next five 
     years, by capping medicaid payments, reducing and freezing 
     Disproportionate Share Hospital payments at their 1994 level.
       Achieves additional savings through reform of our welfare 
     system totaling $33 billion over the next five years.
       Repeals Davis-Bacon, reduces the number of political 
     appointees, reduces overhead expenditures for university 
     research, and achieves savings from a cap on civilian FTE's.

  Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, I read:

       Accepts the President's proposed reductions in the Medicare 
     program and indexes the current $100 billion part ``B'' 
     deductible for inflation. Total Medicare savings would reach 
     $80 billion over the next 5 years.

  Now, with respect to that $80 billion, the President struggled to 
find budget savings within the context of health care reform. For that 
effort, he and the First Lady got ridiculed. If I was his lawyer, this 
year I would say, for Heaven's sake, do not do it this year. Let them 
come up with it. You tried and lost Democratic seats in November as a 
result. Let them try. You did it. So let's not talk about taking a 
walk.
  Mr. President, it is clear to me that Republicans want to come back 
and accept the President's cut so that they can run around with 
demonstrations in front of the Capitol and say that it was the 
President that cut Medicare. Do they think we were born yesterday? They 
talk about walking all they like, but where is the budget?
  During the debate on the constitutional amendment I asked, ``Where is 
the budget?'' I said rather than showing us 7 years, just give me 1 
year. That is my request this morning. Where's the budget? It is the 
middle of March, and under the rules we are suppose to complete the 
hearings and complete conference by April 15.
  Are we just going to come in with a fixed vote and say, ``All right, 
no use offering amendments; we have to report it out now. No use to 
hear from you, you can be heard on the floor.'' That is not the way to 
run things; that is terrible government.
  Now, with respect to the other matter, that the balanced budget 
constitutional amendment failed by one vote. Mr. President, in the next 
10 minutes, they could get five votes. The five votes were offered to 
them time and time again if only they would do what they said they 
wanted done--namely, protect Social Security.
  I notice my friend, James Glassman, on the front of the business page 
of the Washington Post, wrote an article which was the truth, but it 
was not the whole truth. Section 13301 of the Congressional Budget Act, 
signed by President George Bush on November 5, 1990, says that Social 
Security shall be protected. Unless we honor that law, we will continue 
to move the deficit, not eliminate it.
  That is the game, not to eliminate the deficit, but to move it from 
the Federal Government to the Social Security trust fund. If they 
violate section 13301, Mr. President, they can move $636 billion in the 
next 7 years from the deficit over to the trust fund.
  And who flip-flopped? It is really at best ironic to see Senators 
meet in front of a placard, and I laugh because I got calls on it, that 
says I am in a rogues' gallery for keeping my word. They claimed that 
there were six Senators who flip-flopped. Could it be that I could cast 
the same stone at those who voted in 1990 for section 13301, and then 
for the balanced budget amendment to repeal section 13301?
  Should I get the pictures of all those Senators and go in the front 
of the Capitol and holler, ``Flip-flop, flip-flop, they broke the trust 
with Social Security''?
  Under the rules, as the distinguished former President pro tempore 
knows, we are supposed to have the courtesy and decency to call each 
other distinguished. But 10 minutes later, they have me in a rogue's 
gallery. It is wonderful serving up here now. The devil take the 
hindmost and forget about the truth.
  The truth is that the majority leader wanted to protect his troops. 
The truth is that while saying that they were going to protect Social 
Security, the Republicans were running around saying: ``We cannot do it 
without Social Security funds.'' I can tell you--you cannot do it with 
Social Security funds, because all you do is you move the deficit over 
from the Government over to the trust funds. You are not paying 
anything. You are taking credit and misleading the people. And with 
that, the creativity is just starting.
   [[Page S3649]] Those who say all they need is $1.2 trillion in the 7 
years are acknowledging that they are going to use Social Security 
trust funds. If we take Social Security out, it should be $1.7 
trillion. Today's creativity is to get rid of the Department of 
Commerce, get rid of the Department of Education, get rid of the 
Department of Energy. Send welfare, send food stamps, send everybody 
else back to the States; give them the deficit. Give it to Social 
Security to the tune of $636 billion. In addition, they say, ``We will 
not raise taxes and we will not cut Social Security benefits, but we 
are going to recompute the CPI.'' But check the fine print. Changing 
the CPI will force many Americans to pay higher taxes and will cut 
Social Security COLA's for retirees. They are meeting themselves coming 
around the corner.
  But with a lower CPI, they can pick up another $150 billion. Next, 
they can go to dynamic scorekeeping and pick up another $150 billion. 
If they need more money, they can start selling assets, like the 
electric power grid, or move to a capital budget.
  Oh, we know all the tricks. We ought to get our friend Stockman, who 
wrote about Dunkirk, and let him come and write about duplicity. There 
is no discipline coming to this tricky crowd who will not take five 
votes, or more. All they have to do to get my vote is to let me keep my 
word, keep section 13301, and keep it there for the next generation.
  My crowd--Senator Thurmond and I--are getting our money. It amazes 
me, but at 72 years of age, you have to take it. But be that as it may, 
the next generation is going to pay more. When it comes their time to 
retire, Mr. Parliamentarian, they are going to raise your taxes.
  Now, that is what is happening. That is what is happening, and it 
ought to stop. They ought to quit running around making these silly 
statements. The distinguished majority leader was on ``Face the 
Nation'' Sunday, and I saw him categorically say we are going to 
protect Social Security. If he really means it, accept this little 
amendment. You accepted an amendment on the courts. You accepted an 
exception for borrowed funds. Just except Social Security trust funds 
rather than repeal section 13301. That is all you have to do to pass a 
balanced budget to the Constitution.
  But do not go around moaning and groaning all over Washington that 
all we need is to get one vote, get one vote, get one vote. He can walk 
out here this afternoon and pick up five.
  I yield the floor.

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