[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 28507]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



          DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE; PASS THE BLUE DOG BUDGET

  (Mr. TANNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TANNER. Mr. Speaker, I do not come down here and do 1-minutes 
very often most of the time, I think most of the people that listen to 
these agree, that it is hurling insults back and forth across this 
table here, and that is not very constructive.
  But what I did want to come down this morning to say is that the Blue 
Dogs offered a budget last April. We are in a mess. We are into 
November. There is still no agreements in sight. There is a blame game 
going on here about who wants to spend Social Security money. That is 
not very constructive.
  We ought to stop that, stop the blame game, and get into the Blue Dog 
budget or something similar and do something constructive for the 
country for a change. That is what we were sent here for. That is what 
I hope we can do in the future for the people that we represent and for 
our kids and grandkids.

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