John Shaw: “I think we can add to that the provision that bills are going to languish in the Senate and will not be taken up, so I…”

“I think we can add to that the provision that bills are going to languish in the Senate and will not be taken up, so I would guess that these pay-fors are going to be used over and over again in this House until the Senate finally passes something, which the American people really would like to see them do and like to see us work together to do these things. I would also like to say that this particular bill in the pay-for is a budget function. It does not take any general revenue and put it into the Social Security system as the gentleman from California's bill does. Mr. Speaker, I would also like to at this time correct a figure that I gave the House earlier. I said that the cost of doing nothing was $27 trillion. That figure is actually $25 trillion over 75 years. When I look, and as I see and as I have heard and read from the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt) and from the gentleman from California (Mr. Matsui), they do not think that we have to do anything. They do not think we have to forward fund Social Security.”