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




               TALK IS CHEAP--TIME FOR ACTION HAS ARRIVED

  (Mr. OSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OSE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to essentially commend the 
leadership of this House and the administration for getting together 
and agreeing that Social Security needs to be saved. But the time for 
talk is done. The time for action has arrived.
  The problem that we face is that we have yet to receive a single 
piece of evidence as to what the administration's plan for saving 
Social Security is.
  We have gone from January 6, the day I arrived here, now 293 days 
without any evidence whatsoever from the administration as to what 
their plan is for saving Social Security.
  Mr. Speaker, it is unfortunate but true. Facts are facts. There is no 
plan yet put forward by the administration to save Social Security. 
Talk is cheap. The time for action is now. Every day older, the further 
behind we get.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask the President to put his plan forward.

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