[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 22160]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



       ASKING ADMINISTRATION TO AGREE TO DEBT REDUCTION PROPOSAL

  (Mr. HERGER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HERGER. Mr. Speaker, 29 days ago, this Congress sent President 
Clinton and Vice President Al Gore a proposal to lock away 100 percent 
of the Social Security and Medicare surpluses and dedicate at least 90 
percent of the total budget surplus for debt reduction.
  Mr. Speaker, 29 days and still no word from the Clinton-Gore 
administration. There will be an estimated $268 billion surplus this 
fiscal year.
  Our question is simple: Should it be used to pay off our national 
public debt and protect Social Security and Medicare, or should it be 
spent on more government spending? Republicans are for using the 
surplus to pay off the public national debt and protecting Social 
Security.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge the President and the Vice President Gore to join 
us and put debt reduction and our seniors ahead of spending and agree 
to our 90-10 debt reduction proposal.

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