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Candidate Notes on 00-HR4839

 


00-HR4839 on Jul 12, 2000

OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY:

SPONSOR'S INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT: One of the things I have consistently heard from folks back home is the very simple idea that the first part of saving Social Security is making sure that Social Security taxes stay with Social Security.

That is what this bill does because it takes the Social Security surplus, whatever that happens to be, and simply rebates it back to the people paying Social Security taxes, not to go out and fix up the car or buy a refrigerator with it, but instead to go into their own personal Social Security savings account that would be held by a fiduciary like the local bank.

The individual could not get their hands on the money until they turn 65, but they would get a monthly statement and for the first time, because of the private property rights that come with an account like that, for the first time have a firewall created between political forces in D.C. and their Social Security surplus.

LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means; never called for a House vote.

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Democrats participating in 00-HR4839



Republicans participating in 00-HR4839

Bob Barr s1oGeorgia Republican
Joe Linus Barton s1oTexas Republican
Ed Bryant s1oTennessee Republican
Dan Burton s1oIndiana Republican
Tom Campbell s1oCalifornia Republican (Retired)
Tom Coburn s1oOK Republican Jr Senator; previously US Rep
Christopher Cox s1oCalifornia Republican
Jim DeMint s1oSC Republican Jr Senator; previously US Representative
John Doolittle s1oCalifornia Republican
Jimmy Duncan s1oTennessee Republican
Greg Ganske s1oIA Former Republican Nominee (2002)
Lindsey Graham s1oSC Republican Jr Senator
Wally Herger s1oCalifornia Republican
Peter Hoekstra s1oMichigan Republican
Duncan Hunter s1oCalifornia Republican
Henry Hyde s1oIllinois Republican
Walter Beaman Jones s1oNorth Carolina Republican
Jack Kingston s1oGeorgia Republican
Steve Largent s1oOK00 Former Republican Candidate
Scott McInnis s1oColorado Republican (Until 2004)
David McIntosh s1oIndiana Republican
Jack Metcalf s1oWashington Republican
Sue Myrick s1oNorth Carolina Republican
Ron Paul s1oPOTUS Republican (Libertarian 1988)
Charles Pickering s1oMississippi Republican
Joseph Pitts s1oPennsylvania Republican
Bob Riley s1oAL Republican
Matt Salmon s1oArizona Republican
Mark Sanford s2pSC Republican
Joe Scarborough s1oFlorida Republican
Bob Schaffer s1oCO Republican Senate Challenger
Pete Sessions s1oTexas Republican
John Shadegg s1oArizona Republican
Christopher Shays s1oConnecticut Republican
Christopher Smith s1oNew Jersey Republican
Floyd Spence s1oSouth Carolina Republican
John Sununu s1oNew Hampshire Republican
Lee Terry s1oNebraska Republican
Pat Toomey s1oPennsylvania Republican (Until 2004)



Independents participating in 00-HR4839



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Democrats: 0
Republicans: 39
Independents: 0