But he said that is going to be a priority for the Biden administration.

This is a unique circumstance. I do not know of a bridge that has been constructed to withstand a direct impact from a vessel of this size.

Chairman, you have shown such amazing leadership on this issue, and it was a privilege to have an opportunity to partner with you on the last mile of this effort.

Thank you both for being here today. Thank you for your work.

you might be surprised by the guest book of a museum in a small town in Indiana. Inside it are names of visitors from all 50 States and from much farther away--other countries, other continents, places like Italy, France, Japan, and New…

Thank you both for being here today. Thank you for your work.

Chairman, you have shown such amazing leadership on this issue, and it was a privilege to have an opportunity to partner with you on the last mile of this effort.

What kind of confidence does that give you that the entirety of it, with Social Security at the centerpiece, is going to be there for future generations?

We need to pass the Social Security Fairness Act to eliminate these provisions.

We would like your office to get back to kind of categorize to the best of your ability to do it, how much fraud would be a part of Social Security.

I ran a business for 37 years, and if we ever had any kind of irregularities that would have been in the category of what you hear here, somebody gets fired.

I come to the floor this evening to talk about our national debt, and I will be introducing a resolution here in a moment. Our national debt, to put it in perspective, had never been much before the year 2000. Cumulatively, it was $5…

I know billions are now kind of chump change, but that is still a big figure.

I know billions are now kind of chump change, but that is still a big figure.

The status of Social Security is critical for millions of Americans.

We can't take the hit here when we are running now $2 trillion deficits, and Social Security is the biggest program we got out there.

Sadly, we lack the political will to do anything about it.

Social security is obviously the bedrock for millions of Americans and was a key part of the first Aging Committee's hearing in 1961.