Unlike the big government proposals being peddled by President Clinton and Vice-President Gore, KEEN credits would offer families control over the expenditure of these education dollars, not centralized bureaucrats.

Moreover, the bill would provide an 'emergency blood transfusion' to improve America's schools immediately.

Millions of America's senior citizens depend on Social Security as a critical part of their retirement income.

An analysis of government-provided figures on the 1993 Social Security tax increase finds that, at the end of 1998, America's seniors have paid an extra $25 billion because of this tax hike.

For many, the security provided by this supplemental pension plan is the difference between a happy and healthy retirement and one marked by uncertainty and apprehension.

This represents a 70 percent increase in the marginal tax rate for these seniors.

Having paid into the program throughout their working lives, retirees count on the government to meet its obligations under the Social Security contract.

Older Americans are just as willing as the rest of the country to pay their fair share, but the President and other big spenders in Congress should not take that as a license to finance their big government agenda on the backs of Social…

Our nation's seniors have worked too hard to have their golden years tarnished by the government reneging on its promises.

In an era of budget surpluses, surely we can find a way to provide America's seniors with relief from this burdensome tax.

I rise to introduce the Senior Citizens Income Tax Relief Act. This legislation would repeal the Clinton Social Security tax increase of 1993.