Don Nickles: “I am reminded of the movie ``Show Me The Money.'' I say to our friends on the Democrat side, show me this budget because…”

“I am reminded of the movie ``Show Me The Money.'' I say to our friends on the Democrat side, show me this budget because this budget would do exactly the same thing. Senator Conrad's budget that was written in 2002, which passed the committee and did not pass the floor, used $866.3 billion of the Social Security surplus under his budget. If I wanted to--I am not going to do that because I don't believe in that--I could say you were raiding Social Security and using that spending on other programs. I am not going to do that because I don't think that is correct. I think what he did was the same thing every other budget did whenever there has been a Social Security surplus, and that is buy securities. I will quote the law. That is the law of the land. If we are breaking the law, let people know. People say you are taking that money and spending it on other things. We are investing that money in T bills. I make the argument that it is an entry and say this is how much the trust fund is, but it is exactly the same under this budget as it would be under Senator Conrad's budget.”