[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3571]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      THE BUSH TAX CUT IS TOO BIG

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, it is becoming very 
clear that whether one is old or young, the Bush tax cut is too big and 
will not allow us to meet the priorities of this Nation.
  For those parents who want a decent education, a first-class 
education for their children, who want quality teachers in every 
classroom, who want modern schools, who want to make sure that in fact 
we can reduce class sizes because we now know that children learn 
better in smaller classes, the Bush tax cut is crowding that out.
  For the elderly, the Washington Post points out today that the Bush 
tax cut is a raid on the Medicare trust fund, that Medicare is being 
raided for the purposes of paying for the tax cut. So both the young, 
who we seek to provide educational reforms for and a quality program, 
and the elderly, who we seek prescription drug benefits for, who seek 
to have their health care coverage taken care of, those funds are now 
being raided to pay for the Bush tax cut.
  We should not allow it. We should understand the priorities of this 
Nation; and the priorities of this Nation are that people want Social 
Security and Medicare protected, and they want a first-class education 
system for America's children.
  We cannot have that if we have the Bush tax cut.

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