[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 28188]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                GOP BUDGET IS A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING

  (Mr. CROWLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, all year the GOP Congress has employed 
gimmicks and distractions against the American people in their attempt 
to pass a nearly trillion dollar tax break for the wealthy and special 
interests in our country, a tax break soundly rejected by hard-working 
Americans. In the past few months, the GOP has dressed its trickle-
down, wolf-like budget in sheep's clothing. They now claim to be 
protecting Social Security, even calling for across-the-board cuts to 
save the surplus, when their own CBO numbers show them dipping into the 
Social Security surplus by nearly $17 billion.
  Back in 1935, they voted to table Social Security. How can we expect 
them today to try to protect it?
  Now they are advocating a minimum wage bill, but upon further 
examination the minimum wage bill is loaded down with a tax relief for 
the wealthiest special interests in this country with only a 33-cent 
raise each year over the next 3 years for hard-working men and women in 
this country; a tax break for the wealthiest corporate CEOs in the 
history of the world and a measly 30 cents an hour raise for their 
workers.
  Mr. Speaker, this is just a back-door attempt, an attempt made in 
sheep's clothing, for the GOP leadership to give their best friends a 
tax break.

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