[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 27856]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          THE DO-HARM CONGRESS

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, this will be remembered as less than a do-
nothing Congress. It is the do-harm Congress, because we are 
squandering a unique opportunity to begin fixing Social Security and 
Medicare.
  When my colleagues cannot even get out 13 appropriations, the minimum 
work that Congress does, they simply ought to retire and go home.
  Last week we flattened the smallest appropriation, D.C., by loading 
the Labor-HHS on its back just to get it to the White House because the 
majority could not pass it. The unfairness of the maneuver is matched 
only by the incompetence of the majority it exposes.
  Shame on the Congress. But greater shame is the long-term damage the 
Republicans are doing to Social Security. They are locking it in a box; 
and inside, they are letting Social Security wither and die.
  The Republicans are selling out the largest generation in this 
century as their old age approaches. May the baby boomers have their 
revenge before it is too late.

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