[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 19 (Wednesday, February 3, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H384]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Madam Speaker, in 1992, the Republicans' mantra when I 
was running for election the first time was deficit and national debt 
and the harm it was causing to our children and our children's future. 
Being the realist that I am, I came here and got immediately involved 
in doing away first with our deficit. The 1993 budget passed with only 
Democratic votes, and got us on the road to where we are today with a 
surplus. We did what we were supposed to do. We came up with a surplus. 
That is our challenge now.
  What does the majority party do? What are they proposing? Rather than 
saving Social Security and in so doing, reducing the national debt, 
they return to their real mantra of spending our surplus on tax cuts, 
tax cuts that will give two-thirds of the wealthiest people in this 
Nation the benefit. It will give the top 10 to 20 percent of the well-
off two-thirds of the benefit.
  This will not reduce our national debt. It will not protect Social 
Security.

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