[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 149 (Thursday, October 28, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H11071]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    WHAT HAVE THE REPUBLICANS DONE?

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, today the Republican-
controlled House considers the last of the appropriations bills a month 
late, no budget, no reconciliation. But what have they done?
  They have failed to extend the life of Social Security by even a 
single day. In fact, they have spent $17 billion out of the Social 
Security Trust Fund. They have failed to provide for a fix of the 
Medicare system to cover our elderly citizens. In fact, they failed to 
even consider a prescription drug benefit for our elderly citizens. 
Their budget, while failing to do this, hurts American families in 
every way. Their budget today will cut money from education.
  Mr. Speaker, think of the disappointment of parents who thought they 
were going to be able to send their children to a smaller class size so 
their children would have a better opportunity at learning to read, at 
learning to deal with mathematics. No, those parents will not have that 
opportunity, and yet all of the research tells us that if their 
children were able to have lower class sizes, they would have a better 
opportunity to learn.
  But the Republicans do not address that, they do not address Social 
Security, and they harm Medicare.

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