Political Quotes

“I think as Martin Luther King would say, it is the ``fierce urgency of now'' that we are dealing with, and by that I mean the fierce urgency being the pandemic that this country is currently going through. That pandemic has taken more than 740,000 Americans over the age of 65. That same group over the age of 65 is the group that is hurt most by inflation. Why? Because they are on fixed incomes. They are Social Security recipients. And they need our help now. The good news, thanks to the efforts of Chairman Neal and the Ways and Means Committee, we have established a Racial Equity Task Force. The gentlewoman from Alabama (Ms. Sewell), the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Horsford), and the gentleman from California (Mr. Gomez) have all put together extensive reporting that talks about the inequality that exists in what our colleague John Lewis said was the next civil rights movement, and that is to make sure we uplift everybody in this country who has worked all their lives, paid into a system, and receives below- poverty-level checks from their government. That is about to end with the passage of Social Security 2100: A Sacred Trust, called the sacred trust by President Biden because it is. We no longer have to go back to the Great Depression to talk about the impact of Social Security and why it came into prominence. You only have to go back as far as 2008-2009 to understand that during that recession, people saw their 401(k) become a 101(k).…”