[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1634]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA FOR THE NEW CONGRESS

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, the Republican agenda for the new Congress 
includes a middle class tax relief package, education improvements, 
saving Social Security and reforming that worthy cause, and a more 
effective, more efficient military.
  Our agenda includes across the board tax cuts which means that anyone 
who pays Federal income taxes will get a tax cut. It includes 
education, legislation which will put more money into the classroom and 
less money into the pockets of an education bureaucracy here in 
Washington. It will include bipartisan Social Security reform so that 
seniors are protected, the soon-to-retire will get the benefits they 
have been promised and younger workers will have a system there for 
them when they retire as well.
  It will include funding for the construction of a national missile 
defense system so that America will be safe from rogue nations who 
apparently are not impressed in the least bit that we have an ABM 
treaty with the Soviet Union, a country which thanks to Ronald Reagan 
no longer exists. It is an agenda that benefits all Americans and it is 
an agenda that rewards hard work, protects seniors, better educates our 
children and keeps America safe.

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