Joe Cunningham: “as to the question on the budget, we have now got a President that will not only not embarrass the country but he will…”

“as to the question on the budget, we have now got a President that will not only not embarrass the country but he will not hold the Congress hostage to spend money above the budget or shut down the government. President Bush will increase the budget by 4 percent above inflation and give tax relief. But even more of a joke, my friends on the other side in 1993, when they had the House, the White House and the Senate, we talk about middle class tax relief, they gave the middle class the biggest tax increase in history. They used the same rhetoric that they have here today. They talk about Social Security. They increased the tax on Social Security. They talk about, oh, saving the trust fund. They spent every dime in their budget on spending the Social Security Trust Fund. President Clinton and Al Gore every single budget spent every dime out of the Social Security Trust Fund. They even had a retroactive tax increase in which the First Lady redid her taxes. Remember that? We have retroactive tax relief.”