Mark Neumann: “We are not alone on this. There are a lot of especially Members of last year's freshman class that are working very…”

“We are not alone on this. There are a lot of especially Members of last year's freshman class that are working very, very hard on this issue. I sure appreciate the support. And more importantly, this is an issue for the American people. The other thing that I would mention is, you mentioned that the senior citizens are irate. When senior citizens find out about this issue, last year they sent in 60,000 letters in support of this bill. When I introduced it the first year in Congress, my first year here in 1995, when I first introduced it, I was basically a lone voice. When people started finding out that in fact this Social Security trust fund money was being spent to mask the true size of the deficit and in fact that in the President's budget proposal, in the President's budget proposal he intends to use this Social Security surplus money, the $104 billion right straight out of the Social Security fund, he intends to use that to make it look like the budget is balanced, when the senior citizens across America found out what was going on, we received 60,000 letters in 1996. And I have already received 25,000 letters of support of this bill from across America. I have them in my hands. So the senior citizens are very much in support of this legislation. I urge my colleagues to join me in support of the Social Security Preservation Act.”