[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3248]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             DO NOT FORGET ABOUT PAYING DOWN NATIONAL DEBT

  (Mr. SNYDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, recently, I was in White County, Arkansas, a 
county that recently had some very devastating tornadoes, and was 
having my Saturday morning office hours in a store; and one of my 
constituents came through and what he wanted to talk about was our 
national debt. He said to me that, while we are all talking about the 
surplus, he urged me to please not to forget paying down the national 
debt. He said, we are talking too much about surpluses, but we are 
forgetting the debt.
  I think that is good advice from my constituent from Arkansas. If we 
use the surplus and pay down the debt, we will protect Social Security, 
we will protect Medicare, we will protect working families, and we will 
protect all generations that want to benefit from Social Security and 
Medicare in the future.
  This is good common sense, Mr. Speaker, from White County, Arkansas; 
and I recommend this Congress heed my constituent's advice.

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