[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 20, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H10374]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              SAVE US FROM REPUBLICAN GRAB BAG OF GIMMICKS

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my alarm over the 
Republicans' handling of the budget.
  First they gave us the Robin-Hood-in-reverse strategy, take from the 
poor and give to the rich. That was a big tax cut for the rich where 
most of the money went to the wealthiest Americans and regular, average 
citizens got very little.
  When that did not work they now come up with a grab bag of gimmicks. 
That is $46 billion in gimmicks to disguise the fact that they are in 
fact raiding the Social Security Trust Fund. They are trying to tell us 
now that the census is emergency funding. They are trying to tell us 
that routine military funding is emergency spending, a grab bag of 
gimmicks.
  But third, they now have the fiction of saving Social Security, when 
the Congressional Budget Office has clearly stated they are already 
raiding the Social Security Trust Fund to the tune of $13 billion and 
at the rate they are going they will reach $24 billion.
  So save us from their strategy, save us from their gimmicks, and save 
us from their fiction.
  What we need is real cooperation on addressing America's real needs 
and a sound budget that does not benefit the wealthy.

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