[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 33 (Wednesday, March 22, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1177]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        REPUBLICAN BUDGET RESOLUTION IS FOOLISH AND SPENDTHRIFT

  (Mr. GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am not going to talk about guns, 
but I am going to talk about something we may vote on this week.
  My Republican colleagues may bring to the floor a budget resolution 
that their own colleagues say is foolish and spendthrift. The 
Republican budget resolution, at least as we see it now, but I 
understand that it may be changing, does nothing to aid Social Security 
and Medicare and does not extend the programs' solvency for one single 
day. It spends the projected tax surplus on tax cuts, and it does not 
set aside a dime to pay off the $5.5 trillion in debt.
  The Republican leadership, I am concerned, are making promises that 
they cannot keep. As a Democrat, it is not only us that is rejecting 
that budget. My colleague, the Senator from Texas said this last week, 
``If this budget is adopted, we will have found a surefire way to stop 
Democrats from spending the surplus; the Republicans will spend it 
first.''

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