[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13983]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



           WHAT A DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY IN CONGRESS WOULD MEAN

  (Mr. REYNOLDS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. REYNOLDS. Mr. Speaker, not counting social security, the 
Congressional Budget Office or CBO projects an $824 billion in budget 
surpluses over the next 10 years. Again, that is not counting the 
temporary surplus in the social security trust fund.
  Guess what the Democrats are planning to do with the surplus. Well, 
if the statements by the President, the House Minority Leader, and the 
Minority Leader in the other body are any indication, we might be 
surprised to learn that what they want to do is take this surplus and 
raise taxes; Members have heard that right, raise taxes, not cut them.
  Many people in Washington are shaking their heads over the recent 
statements by Democratic Party leaders, the gentleman from Missouri 
(Mr. Gephardt) and Mr. Daschle. The gentleman from Missouri said 
earlier this month while in Ann Arbor, Michigan, unbelievably, that he 
would consider cutting defense and raising taxes in order to expand 
Washington's role in our schools.
  Now we have a Democratic leader in the other body who stated on CNN's 
Evans and Novak that tax increases were ``on the table.'' I guess there 
is really no need to ask what a Democrat majority in Congress would 
mean.

                          ____________________