[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 147 (Thursday, October 15, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10922]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CONGRESS' UNFINISHED BUSINESS

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, good morning. I would like to talk about 
Congress' unfinished business.
  My colleagues on the other side rankle when we say it has been a do-
nothing Congress, but it has been. We really have not addressed the big 
issues, the concerns that people in America want to see resolved by 
Congress. They have failed to achieve anything on tobacco reform. 
Thousands of our young people will die as a result. They have failed to 
do anything about HMO reform. Patient after patient, seniors across the 
spectrum, have said we need to reform HMOs to give patients a bill of 
rights. The Republicans have not delivered they fail to achieve. We 
know the biggest problem facing our country is Social Security. What 
are we going to do about it? Again, this do-nothing Congress, these 
under-achievers, have failed to address the real problem. We need to 
save the surplus and put it into saving Social Security. They want to 
give an election year tax break. It is a gimmick.
  But most importantly, Mr. Speaker, I think they fail to address the 
problem of our future in terms of education and school construction. We 
need modern classrooms, we need to invest in education, we need to 
solve the overcrowding problem, and they have not done it.

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