[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 39 (Thursday, March 11, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H1175]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   RAIDING THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND TO SPEND MONEY ON 120 NEW 
                          GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS

  (Mr. WELLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELLER. Madam Speaker, back home, when I am back home in the 
south side of Chicago, in the south suburbs, I get asked some pretty 
basic questions by the folks back home. I had a really pretty good one 
asked to me just this past week.
  They say, it is our understanding that there is this $2.6 trillion 
surplus of extra tax revenue. If we have all this extra money in 
Washington, why does President Clinton, the Clinton-Gore Democrats, 
propose a $176 billion tax increase, and why do the Clinton-Gore 
Democrats, why do they propose raiding the Social Security trust fund 
by $250 billion to spend money on 120 new government programs?
  That is an important question because on the Republican side, we say 
we do not need $176 billion in tax increases. We say we do not want to 
raid the Social Security trust fund. In fact, this year we want to stop 
something that has been going on for 30 years. We believe it is time to 
wall off the Social Security trust fund and stop the raids that 
President Clinton wants to have on Social Security.
  Let us stop the raids on Social Security. Let us wall off the Social 
Security trust fund.

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