[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 129 (Thursday, September 24, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8536]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS DIVERTED

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, with the national news media focused on 
``all Monica all the time,'' any attempt here in Washington to address 
some of the real problems American families are facing is disdainfully 
disregarded as a mere diversion.
  This week we actually have a diversion underway, a very real 
diversion. It is the diversion of Social Security trust funds to pay 
for Republican electioneering. With the Nation distracted, our 
Republican friends are seizing the moment to seize Social Security 
trust funds in order to provide election eve tax breaks. When will they 
learn that the Social Security trust fund is not a slush fund?
  Let us keep the faith with the people that paid into the trust fund 
their payroll taxes and are paying in today, and apply any surplus that 
is finally generated after almost 30 years to save Social Security 
first.
  Let us act to protect those who have paid into this trust fund, and 
avoid a Republican campaign ploy.

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