[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 20, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H10375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY: STOP THE FOREIGN AID RAID

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, we were told all along that the President 
would veto the foreign operations bill because he wanted to spend more 
money on foreign aid. And sure enough, he vetoed the bill.
  Then we were told that he really did not want to spend more money on 
foreign aid like we had been told all along, what he really wanted was 
more money in the bill so he could reduce foreign aid and spend the 
money elsewhere. Uh-huh.
  Look. Republicans in Congress have made a commitment to protect 
Social Security. We have stopped the 30-year raid on the Social 
Security trust fund. And we are not about to begin to renew that raid 
in order to satisfy the President's insatiable appetite for foreign aid 
spending.
  Mr. Speaker, thanks to the Republican Congress, those who receive 
Social Security benefits today and those who hope to benefit from the 
Social Security fund tomorrow finally have reason to believe that the 
trust fund is protected. Let us not return to the bad old days. Let us 
stop the foreign aid raid.

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