[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 26811-26812]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



             REPUBLICAN BUDGET PLAN MAKING WRONG DECISIONS

  (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's budget plan 
does not make the tough decisions that we were sent here to make. 
Instead, it makes wrong decisions. According to their own, their own 
accounting office, the Republican leadership has already spent $13 
billion from Social Security. In fact, they have picked the lockbox.
  This money should not be spent. It should be kept in the Social 
Security Trust Fund so that we are prepared when the baby-boomers 
retire. No amount of rhetoric can change the facts. The Republican 
leadership is spending Social Security, despite the priorities of the 
American people.
  This budget is a windfall for special interests, billions of dollars 
for military equipment that the Pentagon does

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not even want. Billions more will go for corporate welfare that opens 
public lands to oil and timber interests. Yet the budget cuts funding 
for smaller classes, which would improve discipline and give children 
more individual attention. It also cuts funding for police officers 
that have reduced crime in our neighborhoods. It ignores the fact that 
our seniors need a moderate Medicare program with a prescription drug 
benefit. It is irresponsible and poorly planned.

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