[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 23346-23347]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



             LIBERAL BIG SPENDERS THREATEN SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)

  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, let me see if I have this right. As a result 
of balancing the Federal budget for the first time in a generation, the 
Republican Congress has created a record-breaking budget surplus. 
President Clinton, who opposed spending restraints every step of the 
way, now takes credit for that surplus. At the same time, and 
apparently with a straight face, the President calls for billions and 
billions of dollars in new spending programs, threatens to veto 
legislation because it does not spend enough, and calls for tax 
increases on the American people to pay for yet more Washington 
spending. Joined by

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his liberal allies in the Congress, he intends to raid the Social 
Security trust fund yet once again.

  Mr. Speaker, we have been entrusted by the American people to protect 
their Social Security program. Let us not allow President Clinton and 
his big spending friends to betray that trust. Let us hold the line on 
runaway spending. Let us protect the taxpayers. Let us ensure the 
solvency of our Social Security system. Stop the raid, Mr. President. 
Stop the raid.

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