[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 24183]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               SENIOR CITIZENS SCORE VICTORY IN CONGRESS

  (Mr. HILL of Montana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HILL of Montana. Mr. Speaker, last night, America's senior 
citizens scored a big victory in the Congress. They may not even be 
aware of it this morning, but in the first time in decades, this 
Congress voted to make Social Security more important than foreign aid. 
Let me repeat. Congress said yesterday that Social Security is more 
important than foreign aid.
  Now, the President has threatened to veto the foreign operations bill 
because he wants $2 billion of Social Security money to hand out around 
the world. Yesterday, Mr. Speaker, the Congress said no.
  Mr. Speaker, for 40 years, the Democrats controlled this House, and 
not once did they set aside even a single dollar to save Social 
Security. If they had their way, they would have continued yesterday to 
raid the Social Security account. Yesterday it was for foreign aid. But 
yesterday they lost, and American senior citizens won. Today, Mr. 
Speaker, Social Security in this Congress is more important than 
foreign aid.

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