[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14770-14771]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      HONEST TALK, NOT GIMMICKS, NEEDED ON SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM

  (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I wanted to respond to the last one minute, 
indeed to set the record straight. The gentleman from Florida said the 
Republican plans do not make solvency worse. Read the DeMint plan. The 
only way that the Shaw-McCrery plan does not make it worse is by 
borrowing money and by counting the same money twice.

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  The gentleman talks about the urgency of the shortfall, but the 
McCrery-Shaw-et al. plan does zero to address the shortfall. It avoids 
the issue. It is what the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Shaw) called a 
``no-pain plan.'' It is a ``duck-the-issue plan.''
  Essentially what the Republican plan proposed by the gentleman from 
Louisiana (Mr. McCrery) is, it is filled with gimmicks. We need honest 
talk, not more gimmicks.

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