Even if we can avoid those cuts, we need a lot of changes in the policy of delivering service.

Far from Social Security saviors, I think the majority insists on seeking its destruction because they have a better idea.

I want to continue your last line of questioning. I associate myself with what you were saying and what you are implying here, because this is not simply going to be solved by putting more resources and money.

We are so anxious to move into an automation world. For the last 60 years we have been so anxious to do that.

We have a sacred responsibility to address the actual challenges facing Social Security.

Enough dishonesty and misdirection. We either sit down, we either work this out, or Social Security will not be here.

We must eliminate the mandatory five-month waiting period for disability benefits, as my friend John Larson's Social Security 2100 Act would do.

Social Security is one of America's greatest success stories. Forty percent of seniors, fifty percent of disabled beneficiaries will live in poverty without Social Security.

I think that is a good model example for a lot of Federal agencies.

I think we can sit down and compromise and get to some final solution, if you would call it.

I was unable to cast my vote for rollcall 528--had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on the motion to suspend the rules and agree to H. Res. 771. ____________________

the one time where we did a binding--a semi-binding compact, almost like a Millennium Challenge Corporation type of thing but on religious freedom, the one time was with Vietnam.

We must ensure Federal network security programs reflect the current attack structure.

We know, as articulated in the IC's Annual Threat Assessment, that there are adversaries who seek not only to steal information but to cause destructive impacts.

Currently, the CDM program is designed to monitor IT assets across Federal agencies.

Hamas terrorists are not militants, they are not freedom fighters, they are not a civil resistance movement, they are a brutal foreign terrorist organization.

All countries around the world should join the U.S. in demanding Hamas immediately release all of the hostages currently held in Gaza.

I urge my colleagues to support this common-sense amendment that takes the humanitarian exemption back to Mr. Mast's own original draft.