Don Nickles: “I hope we will have overwhelming bipartisan support for it, and hopefully everyone can understand what we are talking…”

“I hope we will have overwhelming bipartisan support for it, and hopefully everyone can understand what we are talking about doing. We are talking about saving Social Security. The President during his State of the Union speech says we want to save Social Security; we don't want to spend one dime of the surplus. Senator Roth is trying to save Social Security. Because we do not just save Social Security by not spending the surplus either in the form of additional outlays--frankly, the President is violating that as we speak because he wants to have a supplemental appropriations bill and doesn't want to pay for it. He is already violating what he said in the State of the Union Address. But I agree. We should save Social Security. This resolution says that we should take the surplus and allow individuals to set up personal savings accounts. I think that is the way to save Social Security. I think that is the way to fund Social Security. Right now we don't fund Social Security. It is an unfunded paying system.”