[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 39 (Thursday, March 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2490]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               THE REPUBLICAN WAR AGAINST SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, why have the Republicans declared war on 
Social Security?
  In the Senate today, the balanced budget amendment is likely to fail 
because Republicans refuse to take Social Security off the chopping 
block.
  In January, we offered a bill in the House to protect Social 
Security. Every Republican but six voted against it.
  Last month, Newt Gingrich's think tank ran this editorial in their 
newsletter.
  The headline reads, ``For Freedom's Sake, Eliminate Social 
Security.''
  The article says, and I quote,

       As we bury the rest of the welfare state in preparation for 
     the 21st century * * * it is time to slay the largest 
     ``entitlement'' program of all--Social Security.

  And let us not forget--the Speaker himself once offered a bill to 
eliminate the Social Security system as we know it.
  Mr. Speaker, Franklin Roosevelt once called Social Security a sacred 
trust that must never be taken away.
  But after just 55 days of Republican rule, Social Security is facing 
its greatest threat in six decades.
  Republicans keep talking about a revolution.
  But nobody ever told us that the real revolution would be a war on 
older Americans.

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