[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4945]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  REJECT MAKING THE TAX CUTS PERMANENT

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, today the majority party will ram through a 
bill making their tax cuts permanent; but it is not just tax cuts they 
will make permanent. They will make a $4 trillion raid on the American 
Social Security trust fund permanent. They will make their $1 billion 
raid on the Medicare trust fund permanent. They will take their 
temporary wound to Social Security and make it into a permanent scar.
  Just when 40 million Americans will be entering Social Security, they 
will be permanently raiding it for $4 trillion. They will be doing so 
as part of an ultimate dream to privatize Social Security and realize 
what one Republican called the hope that Medicare some day would just 
``wither on the vine.''
  Mr. Speaker, today's bill ought to be called the ``Permanent Raid on 
Social Security,'' the ``Permanent Injury to Medicare Act of 2002''; 
and we should reject it.

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