[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5246]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             REPUBLICANS FOR LESS GOVERNMENT, MORE FREEDOM

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, we are going to bring our budget to the 
floor this week and it is going to be a great debate. And from what I 
am hearing from the other side, it is going to be entirely too 
partisan.
  You see, we want to save 100 percent of all the revenues into the 
Social Security Trust Fund for just Social Security. They want to save 
62 percent. It would be bipartisan to agree with them.
  We want to keep within the spending caps of 1997. That is what gave 
us the revenue surpluses that we have, the discipline that we agreed to 
with the White House. What does the White House want to do in a 
bipartisan way? They want to spend $32 billion a year more than the 
caps.
  We want to provide tax cuts. That is a very partisan effort on our 
behalf. When the Democrats were last in control, in a very partisan 
way, they gave us the largest tax increase in history. We would like to 
have the largest tax cut in history. That would be partisan.
  We will save 100 percent of the Social Security Trust. And what is 
left over we want to give back to the American people. They want to 
spend it. That is the bipartisan thing to do.
  We will pass our budget. The Senate will agree. There will be a great 
debate. But when it is all over, they will know that Republicans are 
for less government and more freedom, the Democrats are just for more 
government.

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