[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 2884-2885]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  PRESERVE AND PROTECT 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. Mr. Speaker, what is it that the President wants to do 
with 38 percent of the Social Security funds?
  There is a surplus in Social Security. The President is supporting 
taking 38 percent of that money and spending it on non-Social Security 
programs.
  One of those programs is to expand AmeriCorps. AmeriCorps is a 
program

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that pays a lot of little yuppie college kids to do volunteer work and 
get paid for the volunteer work. They were doing it for free. The 
President, if an upper middle class family, the President is going to 
pay them. Might be a good program if they are a Democrat. I do not 
know. It does not make much sense to me in the real world.
  But I do not want my grandmother's retirement money going into that, 
and the President is going to say, ``I want 38 percent of your Social 
Security money, grandmother, and we're going to spend it on other 
programs.''
  That is wrong, Mr. President, and I hope the Democrats will join me 
in saying let us preserve and protect Social Security and only use the 
money for Social Security.

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