[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 129 (Thursday, September 24, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8539]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                               DECEPTION

  (Mr. THUNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. Speaker, when the other side repeated over and over 
again during the 1996 campaign that the Republicans wanted to cut 
Medicare, it was a lie. Many people believed it and so they continued 
to say it.
  When the other side repeated over and over again in 1995 that the 
Republicans wanted to cut the school lunch program, that was a lie. Yet 
that worked, too, to some degree. Now it is 1998. The other side has 
already started on another deception that lowering taxes on farmers and 
ranchers and families would threaten Social Security. That, too, is a 
lie.
  How ironic that the party that did nothing, nothing for 40 years to 
fix a system they knew was going broke, is now attacking our commitment 
to use 90 percent of the surplus to fix Social Security while giving 
the remaining 10 percent back to the American people. How is it that 
billions of dollars in liberal spending do not threaten Social Security 
but lower taxes for farmers and ranchers somehow would?
  America's farmers and ranchers need a break, and it is time to give 
them much-needed tax relief.

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