Mark Neumann: “I would like to point out it is not only education where we are looking at this problem. Our President has looked at…”

“I would like to point out it is not only education where we are looking at this problem. Our President has looked at this growing debt, and he has looked at us near the top of this debt chart. Here is what he has concluded in his budget plan because I took it apart myself personally and I found out what is in his budget plan. In Medicaid alone we are proposing $4 billion in new spending in 1 year alone. It is a total of roughly $15 billion over 5 years. In Medicare spending, we are proposing $5 billion in 2002 alone, a total of roughly $15 billion more. Mr. Speaker, these are not like: We have got this in the Medicare Program and how are we going to pay the bills of the current Medicare Program. These are: Hey, I have got a new idea, and we do not have enough Washington programs already, so the President says we need some more new Washington spending programs. That is where the Social Security trust fund money is going. They are taking that money out of the trust fund and spending it on these new Washington programs. It is not just education. Let me go on one more.”