[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 24182]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



REPUBLICANS' MANAGED CARE REFORM BILL WILL SPEND SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST 
                               FUND MONEY

  (Mr. GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to follow the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Armey) and obviously disagree with him because he said 
there is not going to be a bill scheduled that will spend Social 
Security trust funds.
  Well, I was going to stand up here and talk about the managed care 
reform bill and the rule that was rigged to make sure that the access 
bill would pass even if the Dingell-Norwood bill does. Let me tell my 
colleagues what has been scheduled today, and it is exactly opposite 
from what the majority leader said. $48 billion of Social Security 
money will be spent if that access bill passes because there is no way 
they are paying for that.
  So I do not know who to believe, either the numbers I see or what I 
hear from the 1-minute from the majority leader. Hopefully, the 
American people will look at what is happening. They are promising one 
thing from the floor of this House; but in the Committee on 
Appropriations and everywhere else, they are spending over $18 billion 
in Social Security funds, and today they have allowed an amendment on 
this floor that will spend $48 billion that will not be used for Social 
Security benefits.

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