[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15258]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       REPUBLICAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  (Mr. ROYCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROYCE. Mr. Speaker, as we know, this Congress has accomplished 
much, and it should be proud of what it has done. We said we wanted to 
preserve and protect Social Security and Medicare, and we have. We 
stopped the raid on Social Security that had been going on for decades. 
And we made the system stronger by passing legislation locking away 100 
percent of the Social Security surplus for Social Security, not for any 
other spending.
  Republicans said we would eliminate the deficit and pay down the 
debt, and we have. In fact, under the Republican budget, we will pay 
off the entire $3.5 trillion publicly held debt. When Americans across 
this land said they wanted us to eliminate the marriage tax, we ignored 
protests from the Clinton-Gore administration, and we passed a bill 
that makes married couples equal with singles in the eyes of the IRS.
  Let us work together in a bipartisan manner on behalf of all 
Americans to protect and preserve Social Security and accomplish these 
other goals.

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