[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25312]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                      SLASH AND BURN SPENDING CUTS

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call attention to the 
actions of the House leadership. The Republicans cannot make the tough 
choice on government spending, so they have
resorted to across-the-board spending cuts. It is a slash-and-burn 
budget cutting, and this will fall squarely on the backs of seniors and 
children, the most vulnerable members of society. That means cutting 
food and education programs to poor children and destroying Meals on 
Wheels for home-bound seniors. The programs that have been so 
successful in empowering our citizens to succeed like Head Start and 
Gear Up and adult literacy programs are slashed or gone entirely.
  Mr. Speaker, the Republicans have missed their budget deadline. They 
have busted the budget caps, all the while claiming to be fiscally 
responsible, and they are spending the Social Security surplus, more 
than $19 billion of it.
  So now we must judge them by their actions, or in this case, their 
gimmicks, calling the census an emergency, or adding a thirteenth month 
to the calendar year. This is not the kind of leadership the American 
people need and deserve from their elected representatives.

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