[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 19183]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



         TAXPAYERS KNOW WHICH PARTY IS CAREFUL WITH THEIR MONEY

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Madam Speaker, for 40 years Democrats 
controlled Congress. For 40 years Democrats expanded government, spent 
beyond our needs, and called Republicans extremists or mean-spirited 
any time they tried to limit spending, cut wasteful government 
programs, and return power back to the State and local level. They have 
a 40-year track record of being the party for which fiscal discipline 
was the last thing on their minds.
  So please, with all due respect, Democrat allegations that 
Republicans are being fiscally irresponsible for proposing tax relief 
in the face of increasing surpluses do not pass the credibility test. 
As C-Span junkies know, on virtually every amendment, on virtually 
every bill, Democrats attempt to increase spending and Republicans try 
to reduce spending.
  How is it that increased spending is not a threat to fiscal 
discipline, but tax cuts are? Just how liberal am I to conclude the 
Democrat party has become if tax cuts are viewed as dangerous to the 
economy? One has to wonder just where they learned economics. Taxpayers 
know which party is careful with their money and which party is not.

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