Political Quotes

“It is an honor to be here this evening with you and to talk about--during this time of the COVID pandemic--something that is near and dear to the hearts of the people impacted the most by this pandemic. Madam Speaker, as you know, more than a million people now have perished because of the COVID pandemic, and 750,000 of them are American citizens over the age of 65. In addition, because of the war in Ukraine, because of this pandemic, and because of this inflation, who is the group in America that is most impacted by the pandemic and the ensuing inflation? It is the senior citizens of our country, and it is people over the age of 65. They are people who are on fixed income. These individuals need the help of the United States Congress. I commend Chairman Rich Neal, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and a Social Security recipient himself, who knows and understands the necessity and the absolute dependence that so many of our fellow Americans have on the Nation's number one insurance program. The insurance program that keeps our seniors off of poverty. It also happens to be the number one insurance plan for children. Madam Speaker, it is the number one plan for veterans who rely more on Social Security Disability than they do the VA. For more than half of our fellow citizens who are on Social Security, it is the only benefit that they have. That benefit, on average, is $16,000 per individual. Nobody gets wealthy on Social Security.…”