[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H1603]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               THE BUDGET

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, testimony by the Congressional Budget Office 
Director confirms that President Clinton's budget blows the roof off 
the bipartisan spending caps of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. He 
stated that the President's budget will exceed those caps by $30 
billion in the next fiscal year alone.
  The balanced budget agreement is under 2 years old, and the President 
simply cannot stop himself from spending more of one's money.
  We already know that the Clinton budget included $108 billion in new 
taxes and fees and not a dime of broad-based tax relief. On the 
spending side, we knew that the President proposed more than $200 
billion in new domestic spending over the next 5 years, including 
nearly 40 new mandatory programs and almost 80 new discretionary 
programs.
  Worse yet, first he said all of the surplus should go to Social 
Security. Then he said 62 percent of the surplus should be saved for 
Social Security. Now it is clear that the President's proposal uses 
even the off-budget Social Security surpluses for new domestic spending 
programs.
  Mr. Speaker, we will pass a budget that provides more freedom to 
American families and, more importantly, will tell the truth to the 
American people about what is in it.

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