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Kenny Hulshof: “What I want to do, Mr. Speaker, is kind of set the record straight. There have been a couple of comments made by the…”

On the recordApril 18, 2002
What I want to do, Mr. Speaker, is kind of set the record straight. There have been a couple of comments made by the other side, the gentleman from Illinois, that said somehow what we are doing today is going to cost $4 trillion. Let me just advise the Members of the House there is actually no budget number from the Congressional Budget Office or the Joint Tax Committee or any official scorekeeper that says any such thing. Secondly, the other side says we are taking this money out of Social Security. That also is not true. We are talking about budget implications in the fiscal years 2011 and 2012 when we are going to be running surpluses. The numbers, Mr. Speaker, are that over the next 10 years, permanence would cost $374 billion. At the same time, we are projected to have a surplus of $2.3 trillion.
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Kenny Hulshof
Missouri
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Addressing claims about budget costs and Social Security during a House floor debate.

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