[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3344]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            WAITING FOR DEMOCRAT PLAN TO FIX SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, well, the month of January went by and 
nothing happened. The month of February went by and nothing happened. 
Here we are, it is March, as a matter of fact, it is March 3rd. It 
looks like nothing is going to happen from the Democrat side to address 
Social Security.
  One more day has gone, one more day of rhetoric and denouncing what 
the President is going to do and denouncing what the Republicans are 
doing and scaring senior citizens. But, still, no plan from the 
Democrat party to save and protect Social Security.
  Now, it is interesting, up until last week they were saying there is 
no problem, we like it how it is. And yet in a major policy shift for 
the Democrat party, the Democrat Committee Chairman, Howard Dean, also 
known as ``Screaming Dean,'' pointed out in a quote at Cornell 
University, which, as you know, is not exactly a sanctuary for 
conservative thought in America, Dean pointed out that if Social 
Security were left alone for 30 years, its benefits would be reduced to 
80 percent of what it is now. He acknowledged there were problems.
  Thank goodness, hallelujah, we have a Democrat who admits there is a 
Social Security problem. That means maybe the month of March will not 
go by. Maybe by the end of March the Democrats will join us and come up 
with a plan. We welcome their ideas. We solicit their ideas. We want 
their support.

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