[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 1

                 To provide for Social Security reform.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 1999

 Mr. Hastert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
                 To provide for Social Security reform.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) the President, in his 1998 State of the Union address, 
        committed the Nation to saving Social Security, a call which he 
        repeated in his 1999 State of the Union address;
            (2) recognizing the importance of Social Security to 
        millions of American families, Speaker Hastert at the opening 
        of the 106th Congress reserved the House bill designation H.R. 
        1 for the President's detailed legislative proposal to save 
        Social Security;
            (3) every major reform of Social Security in our Nation's 
        history has been initiated by the President, either through his 
        submission of his own detailed legislative proposal to the 
        Congress or through his support for a bipartisan commission to 
        draft and submit to the Congress such a proposal on his behalf; 
        and
            (4) the President's ``framework'' for reform issued as part 
        of his Fiscal Year 2000 Budget proposal, while offering several 
        constructive suggestions for reform, has not been submitted to 
        the Congress to date in the form of detailed legislative 
        language.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.

    The President should submit to each House of the Congress as soon 
as possible a detailed legislative proposal that would truly save 
Social Security for the coming generations of Americans.
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