04/16/2000
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"It is especially critical that we create a bipartisan consensus for saving the surplus and paying down our national debt."
"Congress didn't act then, and every day they waited brought more farms closer to foreclosure."
"My proposal builds on the positive trends achieved under current law."
"This legislation represents a major step toward a goal that the Congress established for the Peace Corps in 1985."