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On the recordDecember 17, 2013
I think there are challenges with raising the age, and I think one of the challenges is, clearly, it is going to become very difficult to ask a coal miner to go down in that mine when he is 68 or 69 or 70.
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Johnny Isakson
Republican · Georgia

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Isakson discusses the difficulties of raising the retirement age for certain professions.

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