Charles W. Stenholm: “this is an amazing debate. In listening to the gentlewoman from New Mexico talking about the recession, surely she does…”

“this is an amazing debate. In listening to the gentlewoman from New Mexico talking about the recession, surely she does not mean that the economic game plan that was voted in last year is going to last us in a recession until 2004 or 2005. That is when the next part of the tax cuts that everybody is talking about is going to kick in. I believe we are going to be out of the recession before then, but obviously, the gentlewoman believes that we are not. What we are talking about today is, are we going to borrow $1.6 trillion of Social Security Trust Funds in order to finance an economic game plan that this side still thinks is a good one. I do not understand the logic there. I do not care how many times the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Weller) stands on the floor and says we are raising taxes; no one on this side is raising taxes. In fact, I voted for more of a tax cut last year for the economy than the gentleman did. I did.”