Willie Hefner: “I say to the gentleman from Iowa, I would not risk laying $500 on either one of these things here. Let me put in…”

“I say to the gentleman from Iowa, I would not risk laying $500 on either one of these things here. Let me put in perspective, if I can, first of all about Social Security. We have heard a lot about Social Security. Democrats have always supported supporting Social Security. Let me just remind folks that are talking about the Reagan administration, the very first budget that was sent to this House under the Reagan administration, under David Stockman, called for eliminating the $123 minimum Social Security for the oldest, most vulnerable citizens in our society. The folks that have been on the talk shows and been making the debates here today have been talking about where these moneys are coming from. And to the credit of the gentleman from the Committee on Ways and Means, he made no bones about it. These rescission savings and all of these savings that have been counted, that have been cut out of the lunch program and all the other programs, make no bones about it, they are going to be used to pay for this tax cut. Let's make perfectly clear, and the gentleman makes no bones about it, you are going to use the rescission money and on the domestic side you are going to use the cuts, and they are cuts, in the feeding programs for our children, they are real cuts, and they are going to be used to pay for this tax cut for the super-wealthy. Senior citizens. I am a senior citizen. I can get a discount in every Shoney's across this country.…”