[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 19 (Wednesday, February 3, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H383]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   PROPOSED DEMOCRATIC BUDGET A SHAM

  (Mr. SESSIONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SESSIONS. Madam Speaker, the American public today is once again 
seeing what I consider to be really a sham and the downside of 
politics. One year ago, President Clinton said Social Security first, 
so Republicans matched the President and we said we are going to have a 
90/10 plan: Of surplus dollars that would be available, 90 percent to 
Social Security, 10 percent to tax cuts.
  We were beaten up on the floor of this House. ``That is not enough. 
Ten percent to the rich Americans.'' Now the President, a year later, 
is saying Social Security now, 62 percent.
  We as Republicans and as conservatives are going to match the 
President. We are trying to work with him. We believe that if that is 
the figure he is going to select, that is the figure we are going to 
stick with. And yet what the American public is being told is that 
Republicans are trying to give tax cuts to the rich. I hope America is 
listening.

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