[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 163 (Wednesday, November 17, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H12114]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        REPUBLICANS STAY ON THE JOB, WHILE DEMOCRATS RAISE FUNDS

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, let me yield the floor to the gentleman 
from Maryland (Mr. Wynn) who spoke before me and ask if he can tell me 
where his Majority Leader was yesterday when we were trying to save 
Social Security and put local flexibility in education and try to pass 
a pay raise for our soldiers.
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. KINGSTON. I yield to the gentleman from Maryland.
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, I am sure he was hard at work, our leader.
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, the gentleman's leader 
was actually fund raising. He was not on the floor of the House. His 
leader was fund raising. There we have it.
  Mr. Speaker, we have got a situation where the Democrats are claiming 
we are doing nothing, but their leader was fund raising yesterday while 
we were trying to save Social Security, while we were trying to put 
educational flexibility in, while we were trying to raise the pay raise 
for our soldiers, and while we were trying to find one small, actually 
now it is a half-cent in the dollar to cut the bureaucracy to preserve 
and protect Social Security. The Democrat leader was home fund raising.
  Well, I hope he made a lot of money, and I hope it was successful. 
But the Republicans were here. We showed up for work. We are paid 
$134,000 a year. We should be here working. We should not be out fund 
raising on taxpayers' time and money. Come help and protect Social 
Security.

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