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




                            SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, Social Security, the most successful 
domestic program in our Nation's history, is under attack. Sadly, this 
attack is coming from within. It is a sneak attack, coming from the 
Republican leadership, under the guise of tax cuts. Two-thirds of our 
country's elderly depend on Social Security for over half of their 
income. The Republican sneak attack will take $80 billion that we need 
to shore up the Social Security trust fund. They would rob the Social 
Security surplus. We cannot allow a sneak attack on Social Security 
while the Nation is preoccupied. That is what the Republican leadership 
is hoping for. We cannot let them get away with it.
  Democrats support tax cuts, but tax cuts should not come from the 
Social Security trust fund. Our Nation's elderly depend on Social 
Security. Our children depend on it. Working families depend on Social 
Security. The $80 billion sneak attack will hurt all of them.
  Mr. Speaker, let us save Social Security first.

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