Karen Thurman: “And that was one of those issues that in fact raised the level of it, and it causes a lot of problems for some people.…”

one of the things that is missed in this debate is that we watched the Social Security solvency, as well as Medicare, increase by year. Every year we were moving ahead, not backwards. So at first when we heard about Social Security, it was…

I believe they are important priorities. But as a result of that decision, and because this bill contains no revenue offsets, I believe that there is a substantial certainty that the tax reductions contained in the energy bill will be…

I would say to our chairman that I think one of the issues here is that we are really trying to get an opportunity to debate this issue, and not under the consent calendar, and to move it along in a different manner. I would also bring in…

It was to also recognize that Social Security was never supposed to be what people would have to live off of. So if we could find these U.S.A. accounts or whatever magic name we wanted to call them, the fact of the matter was that they…