George Voinovich: “I would like to reiterate if we were able to achieve what this graph shows, it would be the greatest gift we could give…”

“I would like to reiterate if we were able to achieve what this graph shows, it would be the greatest gift we could give to our children and grandchildren because it would mean that we have been fiscally responsible. The way we are trying to achieve it is to say we are not going to use the Social Security surplus. When we were able to get that on-budget surplus in 1999 and 2000, I remember how we always had to wrestle in order to not use the Social Security surplus. It was a way that we were able to control spending. That is exactly what we are trying to do with this amendment.”