[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 56 (Tuesday, May 3, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H2749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. With all due respect to my good friend, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. DeLay), Mr. Speaker, the Democrats have been doing 
right for the American people on social security. We have been holding 
town hall meetings all over this country. We know and the American 
people ought to know that Social Security is not going bankrupt, that 
the President misspoke when he said that there is no Social Security 
trust fund.
  As a matter of fact, the Social Security trustees released a report 
recently that says that right now the Social Security trust fund has 
$1.68 trillion in it; that trust fund will grow to $6 trillion by the 
year 2028 without any changes whatsoever; that Social Security is rock 
solid through the year 2041, according to the Social Security 
Administration's own actuaries; that Social Security is rock solid 
through the year 2052, according to the bipartisan Congressional Budget 
Office.
  Yes, both parties ought to come together; but we ought to come 
together in truth, and we ought to have the President let go about this 
masquerade about social Security going bankrupt.
  What is going bankrupt is a legislative process that fails to stand 
up for the retirement security of the American people. Forty-seven 
million Americans rely on Social Security. They have a right to expect 
that the money is going to be there, and we Democrats will make sure 
that money will be there for them for generations to come.




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