[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 28189]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



        REPUBLICANS WANT TO GIVE BACK TO HARD-WORKING AMERICANS

  (Mr. FOSSELLA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FOSSELLA. Mr. Speaker, at the outset let me commend my friend 
from New York (Mr. McNulty) and his dad for 50 years of wonderful 
service to our country.
  Mr. Speaker, I think this is healthy, and for those who feel clouded 
by the debate here, I would just like to put it in very simple terms: 
The core difference between the parties here, as I see it, is the 
notion of who wants to strengthen personal freedom; who wants to give 
back to the hard-working Americans who go work at sometimes two and 
three jobs to support their families, to put food on the table, to buy 
clothes for their kids for school, to buy that new microwave oven; who 
wants to be on their side and give them more of their hard-earned money 
back, and who feels it is appropriate for Washington to keep as much 
money as possible?
  We had the debate about the appropriations bills. Well, the ordinary 
American is telling us to do our business and come back home. But what 
we have heard is that Congress passes the bills within certain caps, 
the White House vetoes it, yet never says where they want to get the 
additional money from to spend on their additional programs. I think it 
is legitimate for the American people to ask where is that money coming 
from.

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