Karen Thurman: “I first would say to the women who came from New Jersey here to speak to the body, we heard so eloquently today somebody…”

as part of my continuing series on Social Security and women, I would like to focus this evening's comments on the financial risks that I believe are posed by privatizing the Social Security program. Social Security privatization would…

I wish to ask the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), we have been hearing about who is against this amendment, but could the gentleman give me an indication of who is for this? And, also, for the record, this was 363 to 12 the last time…

I would say that it is kind of interesting to listen to some prior speakers who talked about the poor and who would get this. First, no single mother with an income more than $20,000 is going to be eligible because, by the way, $20,000 is…

And I think there were some issues out here also that are very alarming and very concerning and certainly ones that, I think, based on the constituency in the Fifth District in talking with them, that they were seeing high increases in…