[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18610]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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                   SUPPORT THE REPUBLICAN TAX PACKAGE

  (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, I rise in support of the 
Republican tax package. For all too many years, hard-working Americans 
have seen more and more of their money going to Washington, D.C., going 
to wasteful spending, going to programs that take the tax dollars that 
those hard-working Americans worked very hard to obtain, and 
squandering them on programs that do not achieve their directed 
purpose, but in many ways, make matters worse.
  Now, we all support making sure that priority programs that help the 
poor, help the needy, help our senior citizens get the funding that 
they need. That is why this tax cut package protects all of the money 
in Social Security, sets aside the Social Security surplus for the 
first time. After more than 30 years of liberal Democrats spending the 
Social Security Trust Fund dollars, we, the Republicans, are setting 
that money aside. Then, in the end, we still have some money that we 
can return back to hard-working families in America.
  Mr. Speaker, it is the right thing to do. If we leave the money in 
this town, it will get spent. We have to get the money out of this town 
in order to get it back in people's pockets.




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