[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14718]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 REPUBLICANS WANT TO GIVE EXTRA MONEY COLLECTED BY GOVERNMENT BACK TO 
                               TAXPAYERS

  (Mr. ROGAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGAN. Mr. Speaker, under a Republican Congress, our economy is 
projecting huge budget surpluses over the next 10 years. And I do not 
mean liberal Democrat style surpluses. I mean real surpluses that do 
not count and include the Social Security Trust Fund.
  The debate has begun already as to what to do with the extra money 
now being collected by the Government. The Republicans want to give it 
back to the people who earned it in the first place--the taxpayers. But 
the liberals do not see it that way. They want to spend it. As I speak, 
they are coming up with huge new Washington programs even before the 
surplus has actually come in.
  So that is our choice. Congress can spend it, or we can give it back 
in form of tax relief to the families that earned it. Republicans want 
the politicians in Washington to keep their hands off working families' 
money. This is a battle we will be proud to wage as we go forward in 
the next few weeks.

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