[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 26458]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               WHERE IS THE SECRET REPUBLICAN BUDGET PLAN

  (Mr. EDWARDS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, day 21. Day 21 of the new fiscal year, and 
I have one question. Where is the secret Republican budget plan? I 
asked this 2 days ago, and no Republican colleague could find it for 
me. I have asked the pages, I have looked in committee hearing rooms, I 
have looked on the seats of the floor of the House, but I cannot find 
it anywhere.
  The Constitution says that the Congress, not the President, must pass 
appropriations bills. Yet while they are criticizing the President, 21 
days into the new fiscal year, I cannot find the Republicans' secret 
budget plan.
  Maybe there is a reason for that. Maybe it is because the CBO says 
their individual proposals would spend billions of dollars of Social 
Security money, at the very time they are running ads against Democrats 
saying we are spending Social Security money.
  I would suggest for the Republicans to pretend like their proposals 
are protecting Social Security, is kind of like Al Capone claiming to 
be a crime fighter.
  Day 21. It is time for the Republicans to show the country and the 
Congress their secret Republican budget plan.

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