[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 27281]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            REPUBLICANS WILL NOT STEAL FROM SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. GARY MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARY MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, the Democrat leaders' 
strategy seems to be to obstruct and delay the budget process. 
According to Monday's Roll Call newspaper article, Democrat Leader 
Gephardt is telling Members not to support appropriations bills even if 
they are the product of bipartisan negotiations.
  Why would the gentleman from Missouri oppose Democrats and 
Republicans working together to finish the people's business? What 
benefit is there in this strategy? Who does the gentleman from Missouri 
represent when he says do not work with Republicans, do not pass 
appropriations bills, do not get anything done? This is not what the 
constituents of my district and the American people want. They want us 
to pass a balanced budget without raiding Social Security.
  Mr. Gephardt, please abandon the strategy of gridlock and delay and 
instead join us in finishing a budget that does not steal from Social 
Security.

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