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.

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

Social Security is a vital program for all Americans. We need to be good stewards of its services and benefits.

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 ask unanimous consent that the preamble be agreed to and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…

As Governor of Nebraska, I recognized that all Social Security benefits should be completely tax free, and that is why I worked hard to pass a historic law that would phaseout the State income tax on Social Security benefits over a period…

You are really forced to do that as a Mayor, because if you are letting stuff like that go, people will run you down at a ballgame or some other place.

We cannot run the biggest business in the world that way.

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.

We have never in the history of the country raised more than roughly 18 percent of our GDP in Federal revenues.

I know of no further debate on the measure. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate, the question is on adoption of the resolution. The resolution was agreed to. The resolution (S. Res. 600) was agreed to.

I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to complete my remarks, which I have done, followed by Senator Padilla, for up to 5 minutes prior to the scheduled rollcall vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

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.

Government, you know, where it has gone to. It has got to get back down into where people for basic questions in any government agency don't have to hang on to the phone more than a few minutes at the most.

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

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.

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