[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 20, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H10373-H10374]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP CLAIMS THEY ARE SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the Republican leadership is stealing eggs 
from the hen house while pretending to guard the door. They claim that 
they are saving Social Security. But their own office, their own 
office, the Congressional Budget Office, points out

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that they have already spent $13 billion worth of Social Security 
money.
  Their leadership budget is so full of gimmicks and budget tricks that 
it would make an accountant cry. In an attempt to fudge the numbers, 
the leadership created a 13th month so that they can crunch more 
numbers into the fiscal year.
  But the facts are very stubborn things. The Republican leadership is 
not saving Social Security. They have no plans to do so. The Republican 
majority leader himself has called Social Security a ``rotten trick'' 
and ``bad retirement.'' He has called for Social Security to be phased 
out.
  Earlier this year the Republican leadership tried to spend nearly $1 
trillion of the surplus on tax breaks for the wealthiest people of this 
country instead of strengthening Social Security.

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