[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 66 (Tuesday, May 21, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H2668]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow the chickens 
come home to roost for the Republicans. After destroying a $5 trillion 
surplus and giving away $4 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthiest 
people in the country, tomorrow the Republicans must take the first 
step in authorizing an additional $750 billion in deficit spending, Mr. 
Speaker; $750 billion that this Nation does not have because of the 
Republican giveaways in the tax cut, and $750 billion that 
unfortunately now must come directly out of the Social Security Trust 
Fund.
  Remember all of those promises about a lock box, about a super lock 
box, how they would never use Social Security for any other purpose? 
All of those promises go by the wayside tomorrow, because tomorrow is 
the first step when the Republicans vote to increase by $750 billion of 
spending that is taken directly from Social Security.

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  What does that mean to Social Security recipients? It means that 
Social Security is less secure. Eventually, it means that the age limit 
is going to have to be raised, and then the Republicans will have to 
work on their plan to privatize Social Security. The last time they 
privatized something, it was the energy markets; and the next thing we 
saw was the Enron Corporation.

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