[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 26462]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                  REPUBLICANS PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. TANCREDO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. TANCREDO. Mr. Speaker, what is a great day this is, in fact. I am 
incredibly happy to hear the discussion on the floor. I mean, this is 
amazing, and I hope the American people are paying strict attention 
here.
  After 40 years of control by the Democrats in this House and in the 
Congress of the United States, after 40 years of spending every single 
dime of Social Security surplus and, by the way, a lot of money that 
did not even come into the government of the United States, after 40 
years, they traipse to the floor today to say, ``We must protect Social 
Security.''
  What a great battle we have won for the minds of the American public 
when even they are now saying they need to protect Social Security. As 
for the President's opinion on this, as to whether or not he wants to 
protect Social Security, I ask you all to think carefully of the last 
time you heard the President of the United States say he was going to 
veto a bill because it spent too much money. Never, not one, zero, 
nada. All the bills that the President is going to veto is because he 
says they do not spend enough.

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