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




           A NATURAL DIVIDE BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS

  (Mr. FOSSELLA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FOSELLA. Mr. Speaker, this is a natural divide here today. We 
hear it on the other side of the aisle. I think both parties are 
sincere about protecting and strengthening social security and 
Medicare. Both want to improve education. How can we not be for 
improving education? I think on our side of the aisle, at least, we 
want to strengthen national defense.
  The divide, really, is between more spending and bigger government on 
this side, and tax relief and more opportunity and more freedom for the 
American people on this side. We believe strongly that we can protect 
and strengthen social security if given the chance, despite the 
rhetoric on the other side, and at the same time agree that the 
American people are overtaxed and they deserve more of their hard-
earned money back, and the freedom and opportunity to spend it on their 
families and their communities.
  If we keep it here in Washington, we give the other side the chance, 
and all they are going to do is spend it unnecessarily on wasteful 
spending.

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