mr. spurling wrote to president clinton.he said your entire economic team believes that this approach is too aggressive and our concern that senator kennedy's proposal and senator teddy kennedy's proposal back in 98 could prove damaging to the employment prospects of low-skilled workers. again, that is what the congressional budget office has said about this bill. and he goes on to say as well as to the general macroeconomic performance of the economy. so what are our friends across the aisle proposing we do when the economy grew at .1% this last quarter? to administer a body blow to this anemic economic growth. that is again not just my opinion. this is dÉjÀ vu all over again as i said. and i guess if you are around washington long enough you are going to see this movie being played over and over again. the fact is madam president that our economy is weaker today than it was in 1998. sure unemployment is going down slowly but the economy is growing too slowly and the number of people in the workforce is the lowest it's been