[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 113 (Wednesday, August 4, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H6967]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             SURPLUS BELONGS TO WORKING FAMILIES OF AMERICA

  (Mr. ROGAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGAN. Mr. Speaker, those who believe Washington politicians are 
addicted to spending lived too long with the other party in control of 
Congress. That malady no longer exists with the Republicans controlling 
the Congress of the United States.
  We are the party that balanced the budget, gave America the first 
broad-based tax cut in 16 years, preserved Social Security, saved 
Medicare from bankruptcy, reformed welfare, and we did it in spite of 
the fact that we have a liberal in the White House who has never 
supported a single attempt by the Republicans in this Chamber to limit 
spending.
  We Republicans today, with a surplus economy, do not trust the 
Federal Government to use the budget surplus to reduce the debt, 
because we know that politicians will spend that money if they have the 
opportunity to do so. They always have in the past, and they always 
will in the future.
  We Republicans in Congress believe that the surplus, after saving 
Social Security and Medicare, belongs to the people who earned it in 
the first place, and that is the working families of America.

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