[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21047]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            GOOD NEWS FROM THE TASK FORCE 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. Madam Speaker, I think I have exciting news, 
regarding what we have accomplished in our Social Security Task Force. 
Our bipartisan Task Force has been working on Social Security and the 
possibility of a bipartisan agreement to move a solution ahead. Last 
year, I   was asked to head up a task force on Social Security with 
Democrats and Republicans. That was officially started early this year 
as a task force of the Committee on the Budget. Republicans and 
Democrats, when we started the discussion were inclined to have little 
agreement.
  The good news is we have come up with 18 findings that the 
Republicans and Democrats have agreed on. Next week we will have a 
complete report of this task force effort. I am excited. Let us keep it 
in our minds. Let us not be nullified by the fact that we have a 
surplus and somehow that surplus is going to somehow fix Social 
Security. It does not.

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