[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 27282]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                               CONFUSION

  (Mr. OSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OSE. Mr. Speaker, I have in my hand the budget submitted by the 
President of the United States in his State of the Union, and on page 
366 it details the various outlays, receipts and surplus for the 
upcoming fiscal year and the ensuing four. However I also have in my 
hand the President's Social Security plan; and, lo and behold, the 
President's Social Security plan, delivered to the House with much ado 
and great fanfare, assumes a $50 billion reduction in discretionary 
spending for Fiscal Year 2000 as the predicate clause for this savings 
he is going to use to save Social Security.
  Fifty billion dollars. No suggestion of offsets. No suggestions of 
reality. No input from the Congress. Just a blanket $50 billion 
reduction in discretionary spending.
  I am confused, and apparently the President is, too.

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