[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 138 (Wednesday, October 13, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H9904]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             PRESIDENT'S COMMITMENT JUST AS EMPTY AS H.R. 1

  (Mr. SHAW asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, it has been now 10 months since the White 
House Conference on Social Security. During that conference we pulled 
together, the President pulled together, much to his credit, leadership 
from both sides of the aisle, the leadership in both parties. The 
chairman and the ranking member on the Committee on Ways and Means came 
together. I was there as a chairman of the Subcommittee on Social 
Security, and we promised to work together in order to save Social 
Security.
  The President at that point made a commitment to us that he wanted to 
take the lead and that he would be sending us legislation. Mr. Speaker, 
today that commitment is just as empty as H.R. 1, which was reserved by 
the Speaker of this House to place the President's Social Security 
bill, the Social Security reform bill, in place in order to save Social 
Security for this country. We have been reaching out in a bipartisan 
way to the Democrat side in order to do that.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time now for the President to come forward and 
give the leadership that this country needs to save Social Security.

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