[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26813]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            SECURING SOCIAL SECURITY FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, Sunday the Democratic leader of the 
Congress, Richard Gephardt, showed his party's true colors. While the 
Republican majority has made a commitment to the American people to 
spend not a penny of the Social Security surplus, the Democratic leader 
feels differently. He said yesterday, ``We really ought to spend as 
little of it as possible.''
  Is that not grand? ``As little as possible.'' We all know what that 
means. It means that the Democrats here in Congress want to spend more 
money on government and use what is left for Social Security.
  That is just not good enough. We can meet our commitment to our 
Nation's retirees by setting aside barely a penny, a penny, of every 
dollar that government spends. It is that simple.
  While the bureaucrats in Washington might be upset that they will 
have to eliminate some waste, fraud, and abuse in their agencies, the 
American people will be happy to know that their retirements are 
secure. Let us just do it.

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