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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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…

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

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

Social security is obviously the bedrock for millions of Americans.

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

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

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.

Given the fact that we have got 50 years of data that this place can't pay for more than 18 percent of itself, of the GDP, and we are currently at 25 percent, what kind of confidence does that give you that the entirety of it, with Social…

By passing this bill, we can take the first step in boosting the retirement income of millions of seniors in Nebraska and across this country.

It's getting to the point that the little guy is getting destroyed.