Today we are one week away from Memorial Day. On May 29, we will celebrate Memorial Day this year. But this also, remarkably, would be the 100th birthday of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It is hard to believe when we think of…

When you think about Sam Johnson and his service to this country and all that he endured on behalf of this Nation, nearly beaten to death by the Viet Cong and then you think about John Lewis and all he endured in this country and nearly…

I am so proud to serve with Sam and was happy that he asked me to introduce with him the Social Security Must Avert Identity Loss, or H.R. 1513, that required the Social Security Administration to remove Social Security numbers from mailed…

It seems the country, as gifted as we are with IT, this ought to be something that we ought to be able to solve rather easily.

This is the most efficient government-operated program in the history of the Nation.

President Trump has promised repeatedly and explicitly throughout the campaign not to cut Social Security or Medicare.

Anyone who abuses this system, a sacred trust, ought to get the ultimate penalty.

The bottom line is this: Social Security is the Nation's insurance program. It is not an entitlement.

On Friday, May 19th 2017, I was not present for rollcall votes 267 and 268. If I had been present for these votes, I would have voted: ``Yea'' on rollcall vote 267 and ``yea'' on rollcall vote 268. ____________________

I want to thank you and Mr. Lewis for this opportunity.

I can't thank you enough as well as both the cooperation that we have received today from the IRS and Treasury.

This is something that impacts people, and now it is estimated that more than 30,000 people in Connecticut will be impacted by this.

I have nothing but great respect and admiration for you and the job that you have done.

We want to make sure that we get this right.

As Rich Neal has spoken, we are very concerned about what is happening to the middle class.

We don't want to see a return to that.

This is a generational opportunity for all of us.

I think getting more and more data and analytics out about the impact of the different tax proposals is critical.

I thank the distinguished Member from Maryland and our distinguished chairman from Virginia for taking up this legislation. Let me start by thanking so many cosponsors, starting with Peter King and Bill Pascrell, the co-chairs of our…

On Wednesday, May 3rd 2017, I was not present for rollcall vote 246. If I had been present for this vote, I would have voted: ``Nay'' on rollcall vote 246. (By unanimous consent, Mr. Hensarling was allowed to speak out of order.) Moment of…

I think it is important that we catch up on the fraud and we continue, as this Committee and this Chairman has led, to do so.

Anyone who messes with the sacred trust of the American people in the program and government that they rely on the most deserves the maximum amount of punishment that the law can provide.

I think the Chairman needs to be applauded, as does the Committee, for addressing the whole issue of fraud.

What she observed then is that if Congress wished to reduce errors, the error rate further, it needed to stop squeezing the budget of the Social Security Administration.

It is not replacing employees due to loss, due to attrition, has severely restricted overtime, closed offices and reduced the hours that remaining offices are open to the public.