[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5393]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




THE REPUBLICAN PLAN SETS ASIDE 100 PERCENT OF BUDGET SURPLUS FOR SOCIAL 
                                SECURITY

  (Mr. HILL of Montana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HILL of Montana. Mr. Speaker, last fall the President said we 
should set aside 100 percent of social security for social security. I 
voted to support him in that. But in January he stood here at the State 
of the Union and said, no, we are going to put aside 62 percent for 
social security. Then in February he submitted a budget that said 57 
percent for social security. And then if we look at his proposal, he 
really sets aside zero for social security. In five months we have gone 
from 100 percent to 62 percent to 57 percent to zero, and that has been 
the history of social security.
  There are a lot of different opinions about how we ought to reform 
social security, but every single senior that I talked to in Montana 
says, let us start by stopping the raid on the social security trust 
fund.
  There are three ways to do that. One, today, let us support a 
supplemental that is offset, so we do not raid social security for 
foreign aid. Let us support the budget, that sets aside 100 percent of 
social security for social security. Then let us support the social 
security and Medicare safe deposit box, where there be no more raids, 
not for tax cuts or spending increases. No more shell games. We are 
going to save every dollar, 100 percent for social security. We can 
start today.

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