[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H726]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   WHAT TO DO ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY?

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, now that my colleagues on the other side of 
the aisle have finished beating up on the President, perhaps we can 
deal with the real business of America. The most important issue facing 
us is what to do about Social Security.
  We will hear my colleagues talk about big government and bad 
government, but the reality is that it was the government and the 
Democrats in Congress who gave us Social Security. We need to take 
strong steps to ensure its solvency.
  The Democrats, along with President Clinton, have laid out a 
reasonable framework which says we will save the surplus for Social 
Security. Sixty-two percent of the surplus should go to preserving 
Social Security through the year 2055.
  In addition, we want to save Medicare. We want to take an additional 
15 percent of the surplus to make sure that Medicare remains solvent 
through the year 2025.
  We have put forth on the table a framework for addressing the 
problems that really confront America, addressing the problems of our 
growing senior citizen population. On the Republican side, they are 
still trying to figure out what they want to do on tax cuts, tax cuts 
for the very wealthy.
  We can spend money on our seniors or we can spend it on the very 
wealthy.

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