[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 48 (Thursday, March 25, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H1781-H1782]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            YEAR 2000 BUDGET

  (Mr. SESSIONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, we have now finished the debate, a hot 
debate that has taken place on the floor of the House of 
Representatives about the budget for the year 2000. And for the 
American people that are watching, I want them to know that what has 
occurred is that the Republican plan has been victorious.
  But it is more than just a Republican plan. It is a plan that is 
based upon principles of the marketplace. And those principles of the 
marketplace are, among other things, living within the budget that we 
have, doing what we said we would do, and doing things for the middle 
class of this country.
  The budget that was passed tonight, the resolution, is for the middle 
class

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of this country and for us to live within the means that we have. We, I 
think, can be proud of the work that was done today; and it was done 
for each and every one of us, Republican principles following market-
based ideas.

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