[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 129 (Thursday, September 24, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8539]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               ON THE BUDGET SURPLUS AND SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, this year we have a great 
opportunity, a once-in-a-generation chance to really save Social 
Security. We can take our budget surplus and begin to pay back the IOUs 
into our Social Security system. Unfortunately, though, Republicans are 
putting politics first and Social Security second. They want to raid 
the surplus to fund their political agenda. They put fiscal 
irresponsibility first and Social Security second.
  No piggy bank money should be used, Mr. Speaker, for election year 
giveaways. Instead let us bank all of the surplus to shore up Social 
Security today.

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