[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16427]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       REPUBLICAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Democrats are running scared. 
Their message of fear, class warfare and big government has failed 
again. Even their own focus groups and polls tell them Americans want 
the Republican agenda of less taxes, less government and local control.
  And who can blame them? Just listen to what the Republicans have 
accomplished: we have created the longest economic expansion in 
America's history, balanced the budget, paid down the national debt, 
saved Medicare, locked away 100 percent of the Social Security surplus, 
eliminated the Social Security earnings penalty, and eliminated the 
marriage penalty and death tax. That is just to name a few.
  The Democrats have attacked these accomplishments as risky. But I do 
not think it is risky to give something back to the very Americans who 
made this country great, the people.

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