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Mr. Chairman, so much has been said on this floor about Social Security that I think somebody has to get up and get the record straight. There have been errors made on both sides, but particularly on the minority side, when they refer to…
We are fighting our war. We were attacked. This is a time of emergency. If we have to spend some of the Social Security surplus, so be it, but we are not spending one dime of the Social Security trust fund. The Social Security trust fund…
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…
Mr. Speaker, on Mother's Day the Nation honored the love and daily sacrifices of our mothers in raising us and unstintingly giving of themselves both in the workforce and at home. Not just our mothers, but all women play an essential role…
Mr. Speaker, today we welcome Pastor Tom Mullins of Christ Fellowship church in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida as House Chaplain. Pastor Mullins joins a distinguished list of clergy, who have opened our daily proceeding with prayer, including…
Today marks the eighty-seventh anniversary of an event none of us would wish we have to remember--the genocide of the Armenian people. On April 24, 1915, hundreds of Armenian political, religious and intellectual leaders were forcibly…
I would say to my friends, no one is raiding the Social Security trust fund. By law you cannot. The only thing in the trust fund is Treasury Bills. Is anybody saying we are taking Treasury Bills out of the Social Security trust fund? Of…
I find it absolutely outrageous. Either the speakers that have been up talking about raiding the trust fund do not have a clue as to how it works or the debate has been absolutely dishonest. Anyone who says that there are dollars in the…
Unfortunately, I have to agree with the previous speaker that this may be dead on arrival when it is received in the other body. But if it is not acted upon, then certain things will not be addressed by this Congress and signed into law by…
Mr. Speaker, two-thirds of a century ago, any kind of income security was indeed rare. Today, however, the success of Social Security in providing income security and reducing poverty among the elderly is well known, and it is well known…
My colleague is once again right. Now is the time for us to act wisely and not overreact. Several excellent ideas have been put forth by both parties. A payroll tax holiday was not in the House passed bill. The Senate has never passed such…
I, too, do not understand and was quite amazed and disappointed to see when this Senator was willing to ask Social Security to bear the burden of the economic stimulus, when the program is facing its own serious financial challenges.
I said a repudiation of private accounts, not privatization. There is a big difference.
as a former certified public accountant, I can assure my colleague that making such a change would dramatically increase the risk of error in reporting Social Security wages. These wage reports must be accurate in order to assure…
Not only would the employer be faced with employees trying to shift their wages to the payroll tax holiday month, employers would also have to contend with implementing a payroll tax holiday at the same time they are preparing W-2s and…
I agree. Even if the lost payroll taxes were replaced with general revenue funds, we would be obscuring the clear connection between a person's contribution and the benefits he will receive. This is what President Roosevelt intended when…
Made in the USA'' is a badge of pride. It is a symbol of quality. It is a symbol of good workmanship. It is not a symbol of protectionism. The greatest, largest economy in the world cannot be afraid of free trade. The most free country…
I think as Tip O'Neill expressed it very well, "All politics is local." And they will vote according to their constituencies, and I think we all understand that. But we do have a common constituency that is suffering now, and we are…
I want to use this time to point out one area of the Senate bill which will soon be offered as a substitute which I feel to be somewhat incredible, and I would doubt that the Members on the other side are really, really aware of its…
I noted that two speakers on the Committee on Ways and Means have again gotten up and said something about invading the Social Security Trust Fund. Even when the Democrats had control of the House of Representatives and were awash in…
It seems like when somebody is starting to lose the argument around here, they start yelling about the Social Security Trust Fund. I would challenge any Member to come to the floor and explain how we are dipping into the trust fund. The…
Mr. Speaker, one thing that is pretty constant around here is that when we have debate on the rule, no one really talks about the rule. My friend, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel), I think he said it best. He said he is going to…
I rise in support the Herbert H. Bateman Post Office Building Designation Act introduced by my colleague, Representative Jo Ann Davis to pay tribute to my dear friend Congressman Herb Bateman. Many of my colleagues have spoken about Herb's…
Mr. Speaker, I must say that I agree very much with what my friend and colleague the gentleman from Florida just said, except his conclusion is wrong. We must first save the airlines. That is what is of utmost importance. I listened to the…
sometimes in this body it pays to read the amendment. The amendment says that at the end of the bill, insert after the last section preceding the short title the following new section: none of the funds appropriated in this act for the…
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