[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 39 (Thursday, March 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2491]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


          DEALING ON A TIMETABLE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY PHASEOUT

  (Mr. KLINK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KLINK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to salute some brave Senators who are 
standing up for our Constitution, standing up for Social Security, and 
standing up to a Speaker of the House who has called them liars and is 
intimating that they are perpetuating some mythical fraud.
  In the rush to judgment on these contract issues that we are facing, 
we are being told, ``Trust us. Go along with our 100-day schedule.'' We 
are also being told to go along with the fact that Social Security is 
not really going to be affected by the balanced budget amendment. But 
in the more deliberative conduct of the other body the mask has now 
come off.
  Republicans now not only admit that they are attempting to pull the 
largest daylight robbery in the history of the Social Security fund, 
but in an effort to get that one last vote they need to pass the 
balanced budget amendment, they are now trying to negotiate for how 
long that theft will occur. Will it happen by 2012, 2010, or 2008?
  Mr. Speaker, this is Monty Hall's ``Let's Make a Deal.''

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