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John Spratt: “Mr. Chairman, we keep having a red herring dragged across the path of this debate. The principal budgeting contention on…”

On the recordMarch 25, 1999
Mr. Chairman, we keep having a red herring dragged across the path of this debate. The principal budgeting contention on the floor, the alternative to their budget is our budget and it commits 100 percent to Social Security, is backed up by a statute which requires the treasurer to take a certain percentage of payroll taxes to buy down public debt. The general public probably does not understand, but points of order are honored in the breach on the House floor. We have a Committee on Rules upstairs which specializes in overriding points of order. It is a joke to say that a point of order provides any protection whatsoever.
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John Spratt
South Carolina
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Discussing budgetary issues and the treatment of Social Security during a House debate.

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