"The biggest impact by the tax increase caused by the chained CPI hits families who are earning somewhere between $10,000 and $20,000 because they would be pushed up into the higher brackets faster."
"It is very disturbing that the folks who are going to get hit hardest, the $230 billion that you save in the budget from moving toward a chained CPI is by impacting seniors, veterans, and middle-class..."
"The Social Security disability trust fund belongs to the workers who paid into it."
"Thank you all for your testimony and for helping us on this issue."
"We have to beef up your units so you all can find these folks."
"I think this is something we can handle bipartisanly."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for letting us ask a second series of questions."
"I hope we never lose the non-adversarial character of these hearings."
"None of us wants to see the bad apples. They ruin it for everyone else."
"What we want to do, if we can, on our end, where the problems might be man-made with regard to the disability insurance problem, is flush out those manmade problems."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Manchester, let's make sure we are clear. Eligibility for these benefits."