This proposed Fiscal Year 1999 Budget represents the major programmatic objectives of the Mayor, the Council of the District of Columbia, and the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority.

We've worked to secure the Medicare Trust Fund for a decade.

First, we have to strengthen and protect the guarantee of Social Security for the 21st century.

I have renewed the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12938 annually.

Today Social Security is sound.

Social Security has been far more than an ID number on a tax form.

We must maintain our hard-won fiscal discipline in anything that we do.

I want a guaranteed benefit.

Today, 44 million Americans depend on Social Security.

Anything we do to strengthen Social Security now must maintain our hard-won fiscal discipline.

If there is going to be a risk taken, I'd rather take it than have the Government take it for me.

Social Security must provide a benefit people can count on.

We must act and act now to save Social Security.

It is hereby ordered that the second sentence of both section 2(d)(1) of Executive Order 13061 and of section 2(a) of Executive Order 13080 are amended by deleting 'ten' and inserting 'up to 20' in lieu thereof.

You can take pride that the next 2 years can produce even more progress than the last 6 have.

Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998.

it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 13035 of February 11, 1997, is amended as follows

The idea behind Social Security is, number one, even though your retirement may be a long way off, you can know that it's going to be there for you.