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Greg Ganske: “I was very moved by your presentation on social security. I think it is a very, very important issue. There is no doubt…”

On the recordMay 18, 2000
I was very moved by your presentation on social security. I think it is a very, very important issue. There is no doubt about it, that elderly women depend on social security in order to stay out of poverty. The statistics of the gentlewoman from Connecticut are very similar to Iowa, and maybe even more so in Iowa, because Iowa has the largest number of people over the age of 85 percentage-wise of any State in the country, and the majority of those people are women and widows. Some of them have to choose. They live on that social security check, and they are now in the situation where they have to choose between their rent and some of their medications, so prescription drugs are involved in this.
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Greg Ganske
Republican · Iowa
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Discussing the importance of Social Security for elderly women during a floor speech.

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