[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12621]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    SOCIAL SECURITY PRIVATE ACCOUNTS

  (Mr. MILLER of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, talk of bipartisanship in 
legislating real solutions for the American people must have been just 
that; talk. The 109th Congress commenced just 6 months ago, and some 
Members on the other side of the aisle are still scheming on how to 
derail practical solutions for reforming Social Security.
  One promising proposal, the creation of personal retirement accounts, 
has already been taken off the table by the Democrats before genuine 
debate has even begun. I believe that younger workers should have the 
opportunity to plan for a higher retirement income than that which the 
current system would allow. Workers retiring after about 2042 can only 
expect to receive about 73 percent or less of what they are being 
promised today.
  I hear from my constituents daily about broken promises by our 
government. Personal accounts are a perfect example of a way we can 
give the American public control of their hard-earned income and avoid 
broken promises to its people.
  Mr. Speaker, it is only fair to working Americans that we have true 
debate on Social Security reform before tossing out so-called partisan 
ideas.

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