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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (172915)	8/20/2001 9:50:04 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Democratic leaders are using the diminishing surplus figures to bolster their argument that the administration does not have the money to pursue its plan to create private investment accounts in Social Security, to finance its national missile defense or to make good on its pledge to increase spending on education. And when Congress returns to Washington after Labor Day to begin working in earnest on next year's spending bills, Democrats said they would go all out to make clear to voters that the painful budget trade- offs now faced by Congress were a result of Mr. Bush's overreaching with his tax cut. "He inherited the strongest economy in a generation and the largest surpluses in history," said Thomas S. Kahn, staff director for the Democrats on the House Budget Committee, "and in a few months we've seen those surpluses slip through our fingers