[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 34 (Thursday, March 4, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H962-H963]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            DEMOCRATIC AGENDA CO-OPTED FROM THE REPUBLICANS

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, yesterday the 
Democrats had a little love fest over in the

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Rotunda to talk about their agenda, and I was interested in this. I 
like to watch Democrats. After all, they are very interesting people 
when we really study them. And of course so much of their agenda they 
have co-opted from the Republicans. Our best agenda, for example, 
balancing the budget, paying down the debt, excellence in education, 
``S'' for saving Social Security, ``T'' for lowering taxes.
  The Republican's best agenda; that is what the Democrats are using.
  But then they could not stop there. They had to put in something for 
the whacky fringe left element of their policy, spending 38 percent of 
the Social Security dollars. That is right. They are bragging, hey, we 
are going to save only 62 percent of Social Security, using 32 percent 
for non-Social Security items.
  The whacky fringe left also is pushing busting the budget caps. Of 
course, the President, he did give has word, but so much for that.
  Then federalizing public education. I am sorry that the school 
districts in their areas did not do the responsible things and build 
school buildings, but I do not want the Federal Government coming into 
my district and telling us how to build, how to educate our children.
  Mr. Speaker, we do not need Washington bureaucrats; we need local 
control of education.

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