[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 156 (Monday, November 8, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H11678]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 ONGOING DISCUSSIONS ON SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. SMITH of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, a very brief comment regarding 
our future on social security.
  We have approximately eight proposals now introduced that have been 
scored by the Social Security Administration to keep social security 
solvent for at least the next 75 years. As we move forward in these 
last several days, and as we break for the rest of November and into 
December, I would suggest very strongly that each Member of the 
Congress meet with the people back home, talk to them about the 
importance of social security, about the complications of solving 
social security, and about our efforts to have a good beginning by not 
spending the social security surplus.
  To accommodate $9 trillion of unfunded liability, $9 trillion that 
needs to be accommodated in order to keep social security going, it is 
very important that these discussions continue.

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