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“to follow up on my colleague from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he said this is the last gasp, this is the last gasp to try to make sure we do not raid the Medicare Trust Fund. I know the argument from my colleagues on the other side said there is no difference in the substitute and the bill. There is a big difference, that each year that the Medicare Trust Fund, they have to be certified that is there is a surplus that can go into the trust fund, not automatically tax cuts and then hope there is money to pay for the trust fund. The same would apply to the Social Security Trust Fund, Social Security surplus that we are building up now. We would not use the Social Security surplus to take it out of one senior's pocket and put it in the other for a tax cut. That is just wrong. Our seniors in our country know better than that, Mr. Speaker. That is why the substitute should be adopted. We need to make sure that we give seniors a tax cut, but we do not raid the Medicare Trust Fund or take it out of their social security surplus that not only they paid but we are all paying.”