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



                 SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN OF THE PRESIDENT

  (Mr. OSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OSE. Madam Speaker, I rise today again to make a point of the 
Social Security plan that the President has put forward.
  We have heard much in terms of the ballyhoo about the President's 
plan, of which I have a copy and which will be reviewed at the 
Committee on Ways and Means on Thursday. With great respect to my 
friends on the other side, I am curious whether or not they support the 
President's plan to save Social Security. Before they answer, be 
careful, because I will tell them, having read it and read it 
carefully, it requires a reduction in the discretionary outlays for 
appropriations.
  This is the leader on their side of the aisle saying we are going to 
cut appropriations. Given the situation we have today where we cannot 
even come to even a nominal reduction, how are we going to achieve 
that?
  Madam Speaker, the numbers do not add up with the President's Social 
Security plan. I urge each of my colleagues to read it very carefully.

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  If we support it, we are supporting a reduction in discretionary 
appropriations of significant nature. Read it carefully. The 
President's plan does not add up.

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