[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1637]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  THE BEST SCHOOLS AND MILITARY AGENDA

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Speaker, the Republican Party has a very good 
agenda, it is called BEST Schools and Military: B for balancing the 
budget, paying down the debt; E for excellence in education; S for 
saving Social Security; and T for lowering taxes, with the strongest 
military in the world.
  We want to work with the President. I was encouraged with his State 
of the Union speech. But when the President starts getting obligations 
to the whacky fringe left, I get scared, because it scares my middle 
class voting constituency back home.
  Yesterday the President said something very curious. He said we could 
give the budget surplus back to you and hope that you spend it right.
  Who is he? Who are we to tell the American people we do not trust you 
with your money? This is the whacky fringe left at its best.
  I believe the American taxpayers, the hard working, middle class moms 
and dads throughout the country, can spend their money quite well, 
without a bunch of busybody Washington bureaucrats telling them ``We 
are smarter than you because we are elected and we are going to spend 
your money.''
  I disagree with the President. I think the American people can spend 
their money better than Congress in many cases.

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