[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 144 (Thursday, October 21, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H10618]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                SENATE DEMOCRATS ARE SAVING REPUBLICANS

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, the Senate Democrats 
are saving the Republicans. Because if the lockbox that the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Herger) talks about was enforced today, they would 
be under arrest for picking the lock and stealing the Social Security 
money out of it because them have already spent $13 billion of Social 
Security money, and they keep saying they have a lockbox.
  That is no lockbox. This is an open and revolving door. They have 
dipped into Social Security time and again in their appropriations 
bills.
  The Congressional Budget Office tells us that already on the running 
account they have stolen $13 billion of people's Social Security money, 
and in all likelihood it will be as high as $25 billion in people's 
Social Security money.
  Mr. Speaker, Republicans should remember that, under the 
Constitution, only they can spend the people's money. They have 
authorized, they have appropriated the expenditure of $13 billion, $13 
billion of the people's Social Security money that they say is in the 
lockbox.
  It is not in the lockbox. It is in the appropriations bills that they 
have been voting on day after day that exceed the request of the 
President of the United States. They are lucky that the police are not 
here arresting them today.

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