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On the recordFebruary 24, 2015
I believe that there are some dangers to our Social Security system, to all of it, but that those dangers have less to do with the fact that we have an aging population which puts more demands on the system and will require some changes than it does from the dangers that are posed within this Congress and from some of the ideological groups that have never accepted the idea of social insurance as a program in which all of society participates.
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John Larson
Democratic · Connecticut

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Larson discusses the threats to Social Security from Congress and ideological opposition.

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