[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 25 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H588-H589]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             IT IS TIME TO TAKE SOCIAL SECURITY OFF-BUDGET

  (Mr. HERGER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HERGER. Madam Speaker, it is time we really take social security 
off-budget. While this Congress has worked hard to balance the budget 
under the manner we currently count Federal dollars, we have only done 
so by using the social security trust fund surplus.
  Let us now raise the bar and balance the budget by walling off the 
social security surplus. Why should this Congress be content with a 
budget that is only balanced because we are borrowing from social 
security?
  Everyone here knows it is morally wrong to use the social security 
surplus to mask our deficit, and our constituents know it, as well. Let 
us end

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this shell game. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support my 
legislation, which will wall off social security by removing it from 
the unified budget calculations.

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