[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 144 (Thursday, October 21, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H10620]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 CONGRESS MUST SUCCEED IN BUDGET BATTLE

  (Mr. METCALF asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. METCALF. Mr. Speaker, we are in the last crucial days until 
Congress adjourns, and we must be really alert. This is a time of last-
minute desperate midnight decisions. Now we must be most vigilant. The 
President may try to apply pressure in support of his tax increase by 
shutting down the government again. That is a real concern, and we 
cannot let that happen.
  Do not let the President raid the Social Security trust fund in these 
last crucial hours for his spending programs. There must be real trust 
in the trust fund, and there must be real money there. People are 
depending on that money. I am one of them. It is my generation that is 
depending on that money. We must stop the raid on Social Security. It 
is our job and this Congress must succeed.

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