[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 26, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3613]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. HOEKSTRA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, it is time to review a little history. 
Just last year Republicans put forward a commonsense proposal to save 
90 percent of the budget surplus for Social Security. Simply, it was 
called the 90-10 Plan, 90 percent for Social Security, 10 percent for 
tax cuts.
  That proposal was vilified every day for months by Democrats as a 
raid on the Social Security Trust Fund. Let me repeat that. Democrats 
repeated day in and day out that because only 90 percent of the surplus 
was designated to go to Social Security, that proposal was a raid on 
the Social Security Trust Fund.
  Now this year the President has proposed to set aside 68 percent of 
the surplus for Social Security, which last time I checked was less 
than the 90 percent which the Republican proposal set, and yet the 
President claims that his proposal saved Social Security while ours was 
a raid on the Social Security Trust Fund.
  Now, there is some reasoning that I just do not trust.

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