[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21667]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   AN IRRESPONSIBLE REPUBLICAN BUDGET

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the Republican leadership budget is an 
irresponsible plan. It jeopardizes our economic health. It undermines 
our values as a people and as a Nation. It fails to extend the life of 
social security by a single day. It does not use one penny to 
strengthen Medicare. It does not continue to pay down the debt, which 
is so critical to our economic well-being. It does not invest in 
working middle class families through health care and education, but it 
spends nearly $1 trillion on budget-busting tax breaks that benefit 
mostly the wealthy.
  It is out of step with the values of the American people. Tax cuts 
should go to people who need it most, working middle class families in 
this country. This Republican leadership scheme gives 60 percent of the 
benefit to the top 5 percent of Americans. Instead of investing in 
education and crime-fighting and national defense, this tax cut puts 
those very important things in jeopardy for American families.
  There are no values in this plan, when we put the wealthy before the 
pressing needs of the middle class. We need to do more for the people 
we represent.

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