your suggestion of off-the-record discussions, question-and-answer periods where people can reach out to each other is precisely what is needed to move a bipartisan Social Security reform bill forward.

And failure is not a loss for a political party so much as a loss for the American people, who have seen Social Security's unfunded liabilities grow by the trillions while Congress has failed to act.

People said, people should pay in and would get the money back with some reasonable rate of interest.

To keep them from falling into indigence, I guess, would be the word.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins) for yielding me time, and I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler) for his comments. We are here today because a Member of this body issued a series of anti-Semitic…

Mr. Chairman, since the United States has a very mobile population--roughly 40 million Americans, or 14 percent of the United States population, move each year--voters rarely inform elected officials when they move, and voters can often be…

Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs). The amendment was agreed to.

Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis) for yielding me time. Let me just tell you that this really is a monstrosity of a bill, the ``Democratic Politician Protection Act.'' You see, H.R. 1 was referred to 10…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 75, after line 25, insert the following: PART 8--VOTER REGISTRATION EFFICIENCY ACT SEC…

Democrats and Republicans are both at fault in the current fiscal state of our country.

Both parties need to look at reforming Social Security and Medicare to ensure these programs remain sustainable.