[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17978]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   STOP THEM BEFORE THEY SPEND AGAIN

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, it is a rather 
interesting argument that the Republicans make so that they can pass 
their tax bill to give the vast majority of its benefits to the 
wealthiest people in this country, and that is they must give the money 
to the wealthy so that the Congress will not spend the money. It is 
interesting because there can be no expenditures of that money without 
Republican votes.
  Last time I looked this morning, the Republicans controlled the 
Senate and the Republicans controlled the House, but they keep saying, 
You have to stop me before I spend again. It is the Republicans' 
Committee on Appropriations that is coming up with phony emergencies. 
They now want to say that the census was an emergency. We could not 
predict it, we could not see it, we did not know it was coming. That is 
funny; it has come every 10 years. For the last 200 years of this 
country we have had a census in this country, but somehow now it is an 
emergency spending so that they can break the caps, so they can spend 
the surplus supposedly there for Social Security. Every day now they 
are dipping into the Social Security Trust Fund to spend more and more 
money.
  So the Republicans are saying, You got to give a tax cut to the 
wealthiest people, otherwise they will spend the money. Sort of like 
the son of Sam who was saying, Stop me before I kill again.
  Stop them before they spend again.

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