[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 22157]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                            HEY BIG SPENDER

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, last month the General Accounting Office 
study reported that a dozen of the largest Federal agencies squandered 
nearly $21 billion in 1999; $21 billion, Mr. Speaker.
  If the Federal government was a corporation, the CEO would have been 
fired by now.
  But instead, our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, some of 
the Democrats, continue to fight for bigger government and increased 
spending plans of the Clinton-Gore administration, an administration 
which has never reprimanded its own bureaucratic agencies for their 
sloppy bookkeeping.
  It is obvious that the bookkeeping of our Federal agencies is in 
complete disarray. The Department of Education could not even complete 
its last audit. They ought to learn some basic third-grade math skills.
  Mr. Speaker, this irresponsible and wasteful government spending must 
come to a stop. It is time that the Clinton-Gore administration stop 
the sloppy math and join this Republican-led Congress to devote 90 
percent of the surplus for debt reductions to protect social security 
and Medicare.
  That way, at least our budget surplus will not be squandered, too.

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