[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 28, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H446]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           BUDGET PRIORITIES

  (Mr. FROST asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, as President Bush said last night, ``We will 
be judged not by what we say or how we say it, but by what we are able 
to accomplish.''
  But despite the President's best assumptions and intentions, here is 
what his tax plan would actually accomplish: raiding the Medicare Trust 
Fund, shortchanging education, defense and prescription drugs, and 
leaving America still with a trillion dollar debt. That is like 
squandering your kids' college savings on a personal vacation. It is 
not responsible, and it is just plain wrong.
  The truth is, beneath President Bush's skilled sales pitch, his fuzzy 
math, that just does not add up. His tax plan is not fiscally 
responsible and shortchanges middle-class working families.
  Democrats are committed to an honest, fair and fiscally responsible 
budget that includes all of America's priorities, from education and 
defense to health care and tax relief for all taxpayers.
  The sooner the Republicans abandon their budgetary smoke and mirrors 
and join us, the sooner we can get to work on the accomplishments 
President Bush promised.

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