Doris Matsui: “Mr. Speaker, what we are really doing here today is passing three resolutions that the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Frost)…”

“Mr. Speaker, what we are really doing here today is passing three resolutions that the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Frost) said were absolutely meaningless, and I would have to say that they are probably less than absolutely meaningless. The first resolution deals with a bill that was passed some months ago basically asking that the Senate act on it. Now, the way I would do this is you just go walk over to the Senate side, which takes about 5 minutes, and just suggest that perhaps they bring the bill up, and if they will not bring the bill up ask them why and then you will find out why because the bill that passed the House is somewhat meaningless. The same thing on the second resolution. You want to make something permanent that will not take effect until 8 years from now. And so why talk about asking the Senate to take this bill up now when we are talking about something 8 years from now? We do not even know how this bill will work. The last one is on the marriage penalty, again doing something that will take 8 years from now. What is odd is that we should really be addressing the shortfall on Social Security, but because the Republicans want to privatize Social Security, they want to wait until after the elections because they know they are getting really torpedoed on this. They do not want to talk about Social Security.”