05/10/1999
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"The discretionary allocation available to the House is clearly inadequate to fund many priority programs within the Department of Energy."
"The bill would cause the Nation to forgo the unique opportunity to eliminate completely the burden of the debt held by the public by 2015 as proposed by the President in the Mid-Session Review of the ..."
"The magnitude of the tax cuts in the bill...could approach the size of all of the on-budget surpluses the Congressional Budget Office projects for the next ten years."
"I ask you to help me send the word to the Congress that let's do first things first."