[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 53 (Wednesday, May 3, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H2415]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 BUDGET SURPLUS SHOULD BE USED FOR DECREASING DEBT, PROTECTING SOCIAL 
                     SECURITY AND DECREASING TAXES

  (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, how did the Army lose a $1 million rocket 
launcher? How did the Air Force lose 15 jets? How did the Department of 
Interior build a $300,000 outhouse? Why is it that Ben and Jerry's Ice 
Cream gets an $800,000 taxpayer supplement? Why is it that, if one eats 
cheese pizza, the FDA inspects it; but if one has the cheese and 
pepperoni, the USDA inspects it? It is easy. It is called OPM, ``other 
people's money.''
  In Washington, the departments, the bureaucracies are all operating 
on other people's money, taxpayers' money, hard-working men and women 
who put in 40, 50, 60 hours a week paying their tax dollars to 
Washington only to have it squandered by unelected faceless bureaucrats 
who know the beauty of OPM. They do not have to be accountable because 
it is not their money.
  Mr. Speaker, the Republican party knows whose money it is. It is the 
hard-working American taxpayers. That is why we believe budget 
surpluses should be used to pay down the debt, protect Social Security, 
and give a tax decrease to the working Americans; and that is what we 
are working for.

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