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



                  AMERICA'S CHOICE ON SOCIAL SECURITY

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

  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, the American public and the American people 
deserve to hear the truth about who will better protect Social Security 
and America's future. Under the Democratic-controlled Congress, 
Congress raided the Social Security trust fund in every year, in every 
budget, for nearly three decades. Why? So they could pay for bigger, 
more wasteful government bureaucracy.

  Now this Congress, for the first time, has a chance to stop this 
incredulous thief of big-government spending, the one who steals from 
the future of Social Security.

  Since the Republicans have taken control of Congress, we have slowed 
the runaway government spending of our colleagues over here on the left 
and begun balancing the budget for the first time in nearly 40 years 
and will do this without dipping into Social Security surpluses.

  The American public needs to tell the tax-and-spend Democrats and the 
President to quit raiding Social Security and work with the Republicans 
to better protect Social Security and America's future.

  Americans have a clear choice, support a strong Republican principle 
of saving Social Security and securing America's future, or support the 
Democrat's expanding, expensive new government and their tax-and-spend 
bureaucracy.

  Mr. Speaker, it is America's choice.

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