[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16213]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  REPUBLICANS WANT TO GIVE BACK MONEY TO TAXPAYERS; DEMOCRATS WANT TO 
                                SPEND IT

  (Mr. WELDON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the liberal Democrats, the 
liberal editorial pages, the President, they are all singing off the 
same sheet of music with remarkable harmony these last few days. They 
have called the Republican tax cut proposal ``risky.'' I am not 
surprised.
  But for Republicans, what is far riskier is keeping the Federal 
budget surplus in Washington, D.C. ``Trust us,'' these liberal 
politicians will say. ``We won't spend it.'' ``Really,'' they say, ``we 
will use it for debt reduction. Trust us, we won't spend it. Trust us, 
we won't spend it.''
  Now, I really do not know what to say to people who think that 
politicians in Washington can be trusted not to spend this pot of 
money. If the choice is between giving the money back to the people who 
earned it or spending it, the Democrats will spend it. Republicans will 
not spend it. They want to give it back to the people who earned it. It 
is their money in the first place.

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