Paul Ryan: “the budget we are trying to accomplish here has six very simple principles. We have been talking about these six…”

“the budget we are trying to accomplish here has six very simple principles. We have been talking about these six principles today, but I want to talk about the Social Security portion of our budget, the most important aspect of this budget. This budget with Social Security starts on the work we tried to accomplish last year. If Members recall last year, Mr. Chairman, the President sent us a budget that said he would take 38 percent of the Social Security surplus out of Social Security to spend on the creation of other government programs, 120 to be specific, and keep 62 percent of the Social Security surplus in Social Security. Last year we said, no, that is not enough. One hundred percent of Social Security should go to Social Security. We, in fact, did that. But last year during consideration of this budget resolution, many Members from the other side of the aisle were actually saying we were raiding Social Security, we were taking money out of Social Security. So what actually happened last year? We heard the rhetoric, and we are hearing it again today. Let us dispense with the rhetoric and look at the results. The results are that for the first time in a generation, this Congress actually stopped the raid on Social Security. If we look at the year 1999, last year, we stopped raiding Social Security. This year, in the year 2000, we stopped raiding Social Security.”