[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 47 (Wednesday, April 24, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S3257]
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                        REAL REPUBLICAN SLOGANS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this morning my counterpart in the House, 
the Republican whip, Tom DeLay, led a press conference. In that press 
conference, he talked about the fact that he thought the Democrats have 
stolen the theme of the Republicans. I do not know anything about that, 
but I do have some suggestions that I would like to give my friend, my 
counterpart in the House, Representative DeLay, for a theme. That would 
be Securing America's Future, the Republican Way.
  We came up with what we think is a very apt way to describe what we 
are trying to do by securing America's future for all our families. I 
would like to suggest this to Representative DeLay: The Real List of 
Republican Slogans.
  One would be securing a $254 million tax break for Enron; and 
securing secret Caribbean tax havens for billionaires.
  Another that should go on the list would be securing skyrocketing 
prices and huge profit margins for large pharmaceutical companies.
  The list wouldn't be complete unless we recognize that the 
prescription drug benefit being talked about is for 6 percent of 
American seniors leaving out 94 percent of American seniors.
  Also on the list we have securing limited well drilling rights in 
wildlife refuges and national parks.
  Also on the list we have securing crowded classrooms and crumbling 
schools, and leaving those the way they are.
  Part of the list also, I suggest to my friend, Representative DeLay, 
is securing higher levels of arsenic in drinking water, and, of course, 
securing permanent tax breaks for the wealthy paid for by raiding 
Social Security, and also having deep Social Security benefit cuts.
  Also on that list would have to be the Vice President's records of 
giveaways to big energy companies.
  Also, we could have on the list securing a future with 100,000 
shipments of deadly radioactive waste crossing America's highways, 
railways, and waterways.
  Finally, I would make a suggestion--I have some others, but I know 
time is short--that we have on that list securing the rights of toxic 
polluters to pass cleanup costs on to the taxpayers.
  I ask that Representative DeLay and others in that press conference 
with him to go back and look at his own list of slogans and add to that 
some of these which I have noted.
  Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the order for the 
quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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