On the recordFebruary 10, 2000
I use this time to respond to my good friend from Texas by saying he made my point, my point in asking that we have a budget before we discuss tax cuts or spending increases. It is the fact that the gentleman's very own bill, which he mentioned, will cost $933 billion over the next 10 years. It would seem to me, and this is the point I was trying to make, that if we truly are concerned about the future of Social Security, and you have a good program, you have one of which I would not talk down about, but it costs money, and what the gentleman is saying with the bill today is that it takes priority over the Social Security bill that the gentleman is advocating. My point is we should have that debate in the context of priorities.
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