On the recordMarch 15, 2000
I believe that the funds that go into a trust fund for a specific purpose should be protected and should be used by that trust fund only for those purposes. By the same token, I am strongly of the opinion that the trust fund or the authorizing legislation should not be able to mandate other spending. We have a difficult enough time in keeping our spending numbers down as low as we can without mandating more spending. This bill mandates certain amounts of spending. Every time we create a new entitlement, every time we create a new mandated spending program, we are taking every Member of this Congress a little more out of the process of what the Constitution guarantees as our responsibility and our jurisdiction.
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