[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 130 (Friday, September 25, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8720]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   SAVING THE SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, Social Security is one of our very 
successful programs here in the United States. It has well served more 
than 160 million workers and their families for nearly 60 years. But 
recently the majority leadership has put together a hasty proposal to 
spend a portion of our budget surplus on tax cuts, rather than invest 
it in the Social Security system.
  I am a very strong supporter of needed tax relief for our families, 
but Mr. Speaker, robbing the Social Security system to pay for tax cuts 
would make it more difficult and painful, and in fact impossible, to 
deal with the serious problems facing our Social Security system. 
Spending the surplus now will suck security right out of the system.
  We have a responsibility to future generations. Our responsibility is 
to ensure that our parents, our children, and their children have the 
base security of Social Security.

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