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Byron Dorgan: The year 2012 was not put in writing. We said that doesn't make any sense. They have two stages of denial. First, we are…

On the recordOctober 28, 1999
The year 2012 was not put in writing. We said that doesn't make any sense. They have two stages of denial. First, we are not using Social Security, they said. Second, if we are, we will stop by 2012. Then they said: If you don't buy 2012, we will actually put in this constitutional amendment that we will stop using the Social Security trust funds in 2008. And that is what they put in writing. I still have that deep in the bowels of my desk somewhere with their handwriting: We propose we stop using Social Security trust funds by 2008, but we insist on the right to do it until then. In fact, we want to put it in the Constitution of the United States.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing the use of Social Security trust funds during a debate.

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