[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H1604]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC BUDGET DIFFERENCES

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, we have had a lot of talk today about the 
President's budget. I have got to say it has got more phony numbers 
than their census sampling scheme, more misery than the Chinese money 
laundering scandal.
  Here is the basic difference between the Republican budget and the 
Democrat budget. Republican budget saves more money for Social 
Security. I think even a Democrat would admit that 100 percent is more 
than 62 percent.
  We want to preserve 100 percent of Social Security. Democrats want to 
preserve 62 percent. On Medicare, we want to protect Medicare. The 
President's budget cuts $9 billion from Medicare.
  Here is what I will say to any of my Democrat colleagues or anybody 
who is interested. I will send my colleagues the budget. I am going 
straight off the fact sheet here. I will send the budget to anybody who 
wants to debate that. It is probably not right to just accuse it 
without backing it up. I will back it up.
  Our budget enforces the balanced budget agreement which we had signed 
with the President 2 years ago. The President's budget reneges on a 
promise, well nothing unusual about that for this administration, but 
$30 billion over that.
  Then, finally, we have a middle class tax cut, whereas the President 
calls for a tax increase. Three fundamental differences; two approaches 
to government.

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