[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 27284]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



             JOIN BIPARTISAN EFFORT TO SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, I think we should all be 
pleased that President Clinton has finally come around to the 
Republican view that we should not spend a penny of Social Security on 
other programs. Since the President had initially wanted to spend 
billions of Social Security surplus on some of his big government 
programs, I think this is real progress.
  However, I am concerned that instead of helping us cut spending to 
reach that goal, the President wants to increase excise taxes on 
working Americans. Mr. Speaker, the American people are taxed enough. 
It is through their hard work that the budget is now balanced. We have 
a budget surplus. There is no reason for us to raise taxes one penny on 
lower and middle income Americans to pay for bigger government. That 
would be wrong.
  So I urge my Democrat colleagues to drop their plan to raise taxes on 
working Americans and join us in a bipartisan effort to save Social 
Security.

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