[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 26107]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              APPROPRIATION BILLS NEED TO BE ON THE FLOOR

  (Mr. GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it is amazing to follow my colleague 
from Florida, because once again we are seeing where the Republican 
leadership's values are. According to the CBO, the Congressional Budget 
Office, they are already borrowing $13 billion more in Social Security 
dollars than they have available. Thirteen billion more in Social 
Security dollars.
  But my concern this morning is that we have not even talked about the 
education funding. We have not even got to Labor-HHS yet. It is 
estimated that education could be reduced as much as $16 billion, and 
yet the Republicans are already borrowing more than $13 billion from 
Social Security before we have even gotten to education.
  Education is the number one issue for most people in this country. 
They want more money put into it, not less. Yet what we are seeing is 
that we have not even gotten to one of the appropriation bills on the 
floor and they are still $13 billion in the hole on Social Security. 
That is what bothers me, and I think it bothers a lot of people in this 
country. I think they should get their appropriations bills all lined 
up so we can look at them, instead of holding education funding till 
the last so they can use education as an ATM machine.

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