[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 16 (Thursday, January 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H696]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    PASS A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT

  (Mr. BASS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BASS. Mr. Speaker, I had planned to address the House today to 
talk about the fact that I cannot support a bailout of Mexico, that we 
have got to treat our neighbors to the south in the same way that we 
would treat our neighbors down the street. But I have been sitting here 
for the last 25 minutes listening to this discussion about Social 
Security.
  This is the same discussion that we have heard year after year after 
year, most usually in an election cycle before a general election, when 
Republicans are accused of trying to cut Social Security. But has it 
happened? No, it never will, not in recent history, and the fact is 
that the only time that Social Security has been affected was when the 
Social Security taxable income was increased from 50 percent to 85 
percent, and that was a proposal that was backed by the then majority, 
the Democrats.
  So let us get the record straight here. Let us pass a balanced budget 
amendment today and send it on to the Senate.

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