[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23808]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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       CONGRESS AWAITING PRESIDENT'S PLAN TO SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, where is it? Let me ask my Democrat and 
Republican friends, where is it? They know what I am talking about: 
H.R. 1, the President's plan to save Social Security.
  Right there he stood, Mr. Speaker, right there, and said, let us put 
Social Security first. Of course he only wanted to preserve 62 percent 
of it and has continuously stuck with that by trying to raid it every 
chance he gets, but he has not introduced a bill.
  This box right here, he could put it in here any time, but he has 
not. That was back in January, Mr. Speaker. Where is the President's 
plan?
  He goes from coast to coast bragging to America's seniors how he is 
going it take care of them; and yet, he has not introduced his plan to 
save Social Security.
  Instead, he has kept saying, let us spend the money. He puts pressure 
on Congress: Spend more money on appropriations bills. I am going to 
have to veto this bill; not enough money in it.
  Guess where he is going to get the balance, right from Social 
Security. That is why he is against the security box concept for Social 
Security, the lockbox that would keep his hands out of the till. That 
is why he is fighting it.
  Mr. President, the box is waiting. Congress is ready when you are. Go 
ahead and introduce your plan.

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