[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 4484-4485]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         PUT THE TRUST BACK INTO THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND

  (Mrs. KELLY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)

[[Page 4485]]


  Mrs. KELLY. Mr. Speaker, this week we know two things we did not know 
last week. First, Republicans are setting aside more money for Social 
Security than the President is in his budget. Second thing we know is 
that the President's budget numbers do not add up. In fact, the numbers 
are so wrong that no one is defending them. The nonpartisan 
Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, found that they have not seen such 
double counting since the White House wacky plan to use sampling and 
educated guesses for the census.
  Mr. Speaker, the President's spending numbers are pure fiction. His 
Social Security numbers are even worse. How does one take seriously a 
plan that double counts to the tune of $2.4 trillion? Even Newsweek and 
the Washington Post are having a good laugh about that.
  Unfortunately, the retirement security of seniors should not be 
subject to phony numbers and accounting gimmicks that even Orange 
County, California could not get away with.
  Let us put the trust back in the Social Security Trust Fund.

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