[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 16 (Thursday, January 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H698]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            THE REAL AGENDA

  (Mr. WALKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, let us talk about what the real agenda is 
and what the real problem is with sticking the term ``Social Security'' 
in the constitutional amendment. What you do then is you open a huge 
lobbyists' loophole in the Constitution, because what would happen is 
that anybody who wanted to bring some social welfare spending approach 
to Capitol Hill would simply call it ``Social Security.'' Do you want 
to have mighnight basketball? Fine, call it ``Social Security.'' Do you 
want to have the Corporation for Public Broadcasting continue to get 
money? Call it ``Social Security.'' Do you want to have the NEA to 
continue to get its funding for pornographic art, just call it ``Social 
Security.''
  Every lobbyist coming to Capitol Hill asking for more spending would 
simply call it ``Social Security'' and say therefore it is not covered 
by the balanced budget. That would destroy Social Security.
  Do you want the surest formula for destroying Social Security? Just 
put it in the Constitution in a form that people can use it to destroy 
the system. That would be the wrong thing to do on this floor today.


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