[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H7813-H7814]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to answer my friend from Kansas if I 
might for just a second.
  Democrats believe America deserves tax relief but the money should 
not come from the Social Security trust fund.
  Now they are going to fool around this week and try to create a 
separate piece of legislation to bank this

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money, but the reality is what they want to do, the Republican plan is 
a sneak attack, it is reckless, it is shortsighted and it is 
irresponsible. It is a raid on the Social Security trust fund. It 
spends the so-called surplus that does not exist and it endangers the 
retirement security of future generations.
  We have a clear responsibility. Save Social Security first. We need 
to strengthen the Social Security system. It is the only sensible and 
responsible course of action.
  I encourage my colleagues to be opposed to anything that will dip in 
and raid the Social Security surplus in order to provide the program 
that they are advocating.

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