[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25812]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              DEMOCRATS CANNOT BREAK ADDICTION TO SPENDING

  (Mr. HILL of Montana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HILL of Montana. Mr. Speaker, it absolutely astounds me. It 
astounds me to hear Democrats come to this floor and suggest that a 1 
percent across-the-board spending cut would threaten government. I 
believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that our government still wastes 
1 percent or more of its budget.
  What those Democrats are actually saying is that they cannot find a 
way to break their addiction to spending money. Mr. Speaker, for 40 
years, when the Democrats ran this House, they were so addicted to 
spending that they raided every trust fund in government. They raided 
the Highway Trust Fund, they raided the Aviation Trust Fund, they 
raided the Medicare Trust Fund, they raided the Social Security Trust 
Fund.
  Mr. Speaker, they cannot break this addiction to spend, even though 
it threatens the well-being of our country, even though it threatens 
the retirement of over 30 million seniors. They lack the willpower to 
do what is necessary to maintain the discipline we have brought to this 
House.
  We Republicans have the discipline, the willpower, and the commitment 
to do what is right, and that is to stop the raid on Social Security 
and to do it now.

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