[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       LET US MEET IN THE CENTER

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, we have been hearing for the last 4 months 
that the majority party wants to meet the Democrats in the center; they 
want to come together and work with us and meet us in the middle.
  Well, I am telling my colleagues the middle does not start in the 
center and go to the right. The middle is the center between the left 
and the right. And meeting in the middle means that the Republicans 
would meet with Democrats, for starters, to invest our surplus and 
reduce our national debt by putting that surplus in Social Security and 
Medicare and not indulging in reckless tax cuts.
  Let us think big. Let us really think in the center. Let us think for 
the majority of the people of this country. Let us look at the budget 
surplus, the future of our Nation, reducing our national debt, and 
protecting our children and their children and a safety net for Social 
Security and Medicare.

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