[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16211]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



          REPUBLICANS DOING WRONG IS WORSE THAN DOING NOTHING

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, the willingness of House Republicans to 
jeopardize our economic prosperity, to jeopardize Medicare and Social 
Security is truly shocking.
  Last night, the Republicans on the House Committee on Ways and Means 
approved a tax bill that is really based on the following principles: 
First, they will never pay down the over $5 trillion of national debt 
and will continue to saddle American taxpayers with hundreds of 
millions of dollars of interest payments each year, the second largest 
item in the Federal budget.
  Second, they will continue taking money that Americans have paid into 
the Social Security Trust Fund to use for other nonSocial Security 
purposes.
  House Republicans have made an art form this year of doing nothing in 
this House. But there is one thing worse, and that is doing wrong, 
doing wrong by Social Security, doing wrong by Medicare, and doing 
wrong that will interfere with our economic expansion.
  Let us say no to this outrageous tax bill that the Republicans are 
promoting on America.

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