[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 27856]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



          IF DEMOCRATS WILL HELP, WE CAN SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Speaker, it is very interesting to hear all these 
Democrats who voted no on the appropriation bills because we were not 
spending enough now saying that we are taking money out of Social 
Security. Hello. Where does the extra money come from? I will yield the 
floor to any Democrat who can tell me. If they do not want to get it 
out of Social Security, where are they getting the money from? Hello. 
Hello. Silence, what I thought. Just what I thought.
  Here is the words of the President's advisor: ``The key goal of the 
Republicans is not to spend Social Security surplus.'' That is from 
their own Democrat advisor.
  Now, what is our alternative? To get 1 cent out of each dollar. I am 
a father of four. Do my colleagues know what, we have to cut our budget 
weekly. We have to come up with more money. Usually when we are looking 
at a dollar, we have to get a quarter or 35 cents out of it. If I had 
to cut a penny out, it would be easy. But that is what we are doing.
  All the Democrats now are crying and screaming there is no waste in 
government. What about when the President went to Africa and spent 
$42.8 million and took 1,300 of his closest friends? I think there is a 
lot of waste in government. If we can get the Democrats to help us, we 
can save Social Security and quit spending it.

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