[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 153 (Wednesday, November 3, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H11376]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                LOCKBOX

  (Mr. SCHAFFER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, this House demonstrated this year that it 
is indeed possible to stop the raid on social security. We know this is 
the right thing to do. Americans know this is the right thing to do. Of 
course, the right thing to do is not always the easy thing to do. It is 
a lesson we all learned as children, and it is a lesson we all hope to 
pass on to our own children.
  On May 26, this House voted to make doing the right thing a little 
easier by passing the social security lockbox, with a vote of 416 to 
12. With the lockbox protections in place, raiding social security will 
no longer be an easy thing for the President to do.
  The House passed the lockbox bill 160 days ago. For 160 days, the 
Democrat party in the other Chamber has held this vital bill hostage. 
They are refusing to allow the bill to the Senate floor for a vote.
  It is time to do the right thing for America's seniors, for their 
children, and for their children's children. One hundred sixty days is 
too long to leave social security unprotected from the President's 
propensity to spend and spend and spend.

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