[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 124 (Thursday, September 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7926]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY; SAVE THE SURPLUS

  (Ms. KILPATRICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KILPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in support of the most 
successful program this country has ever seen: our Social Security 
fund. Started in 1934 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, this has 
become the most successful program. It now stands to be threatened.
  Over all these many years, the Social Security Trust Fund has had a 
surplus that has been used by our general fund to fund very vital 
services in our country. For the first time, September 30th, in a long 
time, in a decade, we will see a surplus in our budget. The Social 
Security Trust Fund is at risk.
  The surplus is really the surplus that is needed for the Social 
Security Trust Fund, to make sure that it is available into the 21st 
century. Let us save the surplus, which is the surplus that must be 
used to secure the Social Security fund. Save the Social Security Trust 
Fund, save the surplus. Hold it and make our future promising.

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