[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14768]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mrs. McCARTHY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, since 1935, Social Security has helped 
millions of our American families. It has helped them enjoy a secure 
retirement, and it has never been a day late or a dollar short.
  Now, the Members of this body and the administration are pushing a 
plan that will cut benefits for nearly every American under 35. The 
administration has said in the past that Social Security is a bunch of 
IOUs. Now we are hearing that we have a surplus, and we are going to 
take that surplus and finance private accounts.
  Where is the common sense in this? Social Security needs a solid 
source of funding, not a plan that drains trillions of dollars away 
from our American families that need it. We must commit to improving, 
not dismantling, the Social Security programs.
  We can and we must do better. And let no one forget that Social 
Security covers people with disabilities and those women and men who 
have become widows and widowers.

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