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



                              NO MEANS NO

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, they just do not get it. 
President Clinton, Vice President Gore and the Democrat leaders in 
Congress are failing to grasp one simple concept: No means no.
  When we passed every appropriations bill this year, we did it in a 
way that will protect every last dollar in the Social Security trust 
fund, but the Democrat leaders have opposed us almost every step of the 
way. They are pulling out all the stops to try to get their hands on 
that Social Security money for their big government Washington 
programs. That is the way they have been doing things for 30 years, but 
the Republicans have changed that. We stopped the raid on the Social 
Security trust fund and we are asking the Washington bureaucracy to 
reduce its spending by just 1 percent to make sure that Social Security 
remains strong.
  We want to root out some of the waste, fraud and abuse that plagues 
the bureaucracy. So I hope President Clinton will sign our legislation 
that protects Social Security, because if he keeps telling us to dip 
into that Social Security money we will keep telling him no, and we 
will mean it.

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