[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23346]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



   CBO STATES REPUBLICAN SPENDING PLAN WILL NOT USE PROJECTED SOCIAL 
                            SECURITY SURPLUS

  (Mr. DeLAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

  Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Speaker, during August the ranking member on the 
Committee on the Budget tried to write a Republican budget, and he made 
certain assumptions that the Republicans are not going to do. He sent a 
letter to the Congressional Budget Office asking if we would spend the 
Social Security surplus under his Democrat-written Republican budget.

  Well, of course the CBO wrote back that under that budget, the Social 
Security surplus would be spent. They cannot even write a Republican 
budget.

  The budget that we sent to the CBO that we are actually going to pass 
in this House and send to the President was sent to the CBO yesterday, 
and here is the letter back to the Speaker, Mr. Speaker, that says, 
``CBO estimates that this spending plan will not use any of the 
projected Social Security surplus in fiscal year 2000.''

  So, media, listen up. Why do you not get it right? At least comment 
on the plan that the Republicans are putting before the House and the 
Senate and the CBO numbers that reflect that plan.

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