[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 51 (Wednesday, April 14, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H1980-H1981]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  EXCITEMENT FOR THE BUDGET RESOLUTION

  (Mr. SMITH of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, very quickly, it is exciting, the 
budget resolution. It came back from the Senate with a couple changes: 
some increased money for child care, some lockbox language that helps 
assure that we do what we say we are going to do, a reserve fund that 
could be used for prescription drugs, a new criteria for emergency 
spending.
  This is a historic budget. For the first time in 40 years, we are not 
going to spend the Social Security surplus money, not going to even 
spend any of it for tax cuts in the next year.

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  The challenge is what do we do with the war in Serbia? Is that going 
to

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come out of the Social Security Trust Fund?
  Mr. Speaker, a historic budget. It should be supported from both 
sides.

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