[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 148 (Wednesday, October 27, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H10866-H10867]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am following my colleague from 
Arizona on a regular basis here on our 1-minutes. Let me give some 
statistics that we are talking about when we are really talking about 
saving Social Security: the amount of the Social Security surplus the 
House Republicans have already dipped into, $14 billion;

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the amount of Social Security surplus House Republicans are on track to 
spend, $24 billion; amount by which the House Republican appropriations 
exceed the President's request, $14 billion; the Republican leader who 
said he never would have created Social Security, the majority leader, 
my colleague from Texas (Mr. Armey); number of days the GOP budget tax 
plan would extend the life of Social Security, zero; the number of 
years House Democratic budget would extend Social Security, 16 years; 
total cost of the tax breaks that, thank goodness, the President vetoed 
was a trillion dollars, and that would have even been worse on Social 
Security.
  Let me tell my colleagues what we need to do. We need to add more 
teachers to our classroom, more police officers to our streets and the 
number of military personnel who would be cut by the Republican-
proposed 1.4 percent budget would be 39,000 military personnel.

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