[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23349]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    STOP THE RAID ON SOCIAL SECURITY

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

  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, stop the raid. Stop the raid on 
Social Security. That is our simple message, and that is what 
Republicans are now fighting with Democrats over as we finalize our 
work on the national budget.

  Since 1967, Democrats have been using the Social Security Trust Fund 
as a slush fund, but now Republicans want to put an end to this bizarre 
practice. Many seniors I talk to in my congressional district tell me 
that the Federal Government has been doing this for all these years, 
and it is wrong.

  Why has it been done? It has been done simply because liberal 
Democratic politicians in Washington were able to get away with it. For 
40 years, Democrats controlled this body, and they never put one thin 
dime of the Social Security Trust Fund aside.

  Republicans now, with a slim majority, have been able to convince the 
President of the United States of the virtue and the goodness of the 
Social Security lockbox provisions which will put an end to this raid 
on the Social Security Trust Fund. Let us stop the raid. Let us pass 
our Republican budget.

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