Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding. Madam Speaker, first and foremost, today should be a day of celebration. Madam Speaker, 83 years ago today, Ida Mae Fuller received the first Social Security check. It is the Nation's number one insurance program. It is the Nation's number one antipoverty program for the elderly. It is also the Nation's number one program to help children out of poverty, as well as the number one disability program, especially for veterans and those who utilize Social Security, even more so than the VA. Looking at this proposal today, I commend the chairman for the Committee on Rules for having come up and situated because of everything we have heard from the other side. Imagine, holding the American economy hostage so you can make cuts to Social Security and Medicare, the bedrock insurance policy for the Nation; something that impacts your brothers, your sisters, your family members, people you go to church with, people you work with on a daily basis. You have proposed both, in your study group analysis a 21 percent across-the-board cut to Social Security. That is what has got our attention. In the midst of all of this, and especially amidst this pandemic, this global pandemic where more than 1 million people have perished here in the United States, over 756,000 are over the age of 65. There are 66 million Social Security recipients.…”