[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 26460]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                REPUBLICANS HAVE HANDS IN THE COOKIE JAR

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the Republican leadership reminds me of the 
little boy who denies eating cookies even though his mouth is smeared 
with chocolate and his shirt is covered with crumbs.
  According to their own accounting office, the Congressional Budget 
Office, the Republican leadership's budget already spends $13 billion 
of the Social Security Trust Fund.
  All of the sound and fury from the other side does not match the 
reality. Their hands are in the cookie jar and the Republican 
leadership is spending the Social Security surplus.
  The Republican leadership has a long history of trying to undermine 
Social Security. The majority leader has called Social Security a 
``rotten trick'' and said it should be ``phased out.''
  This is the same party who, 60 years ago, fought fiercely to stop the 
creation of Social Security. They are still fighting now to spend the 
surplus and to see, in the long run, that it is phased out.

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