[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 147 (Tuesday, October 26, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H10773]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       REPUBLICAN CONGRESS WILL STOP THE RAID ON SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, it is no secret that the Federal Government 
wastes billions of dollars every year through bureaucratic 
mismanagement. Add waste, fraud and abuse to the equation and we are 
talking about some pretty big dollars. That is money that could be used 
in a much more worthwhile way for strengthening the Social Security 
trust fund.
  We have a choice here in Congress. Do we want to continue the old 
Democrat practice of raiding the Social Security trust fund to pay for 
big government programs while overlooking waste, fraud and abuse just 
as they did the last time they had control of this body? The answer is 
``no.''
  For too many years, Democrats in Washington raided Social Security 
while making no effort to hold government agencies accountable for how 
they spent the taxpayers' money. I am proud to say that the Republican 
Congress will hold the bureaucracy accountable. We will make them find 
ways to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. And better yet, we will stop 
the raid on the Social Security trust fund.

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