[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 26108]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            REPUBLICANS USE SOCIAL SECURITY AS A PIGGY BANK

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, it is so very refreshing to see the 
Republicans here on the floor professing an interest in protecting the 
Social Security surplus.
  It was only a short time ago that their majority leader was 
condemning Social Security as a bad deal and saying he never would have 
created it in the first place.
  What we do know this year is, after jeopardizing Social Security with 
a near trillion-dollar irresponsible tax break for those at the top of 
the economic ladder, that the Republicans' own Congressional Budget 
Office has verified that they have gone $13 billion already, if we stop 
right now and went home, $13 billion into the Social Security surplus. 
That is without ever having come to this House floor, 3 weeks after the 
Federal fiscal deadline, and presented the bill to fund education and 
health and a wide variety of other measures.
  The Republicans, if they stay on their current course, are going to 
dip into Social Security another $24 billion dollars. That is without 
any help from anyone but themselves. Apparently, their new interest in 
Social Security is to use it as a piggy bank.

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