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The most important thing I can say is that cutting Social Security benefits in this context would be disastrous.
10/6/2010
Most Americans are making what you make--$35,000, $40,000, $45,000, $50,000, $55,000 a year. That is the middle class of...
10/6/2010
You should both be commended for introducing S. Res. 664, your Sense of the Senate Resolution opposing any benefit cuts.
10/6/2010
Congress and the Obama administration will make matters worse for most Americans if they raise the Social Security retir...
10/6/2010
Doesn't come as any surprise to me.
10/6/2010
I am going to count on Senator Sanders to be one of our lead persons in our hearings going into next year.
10/6/2010
Each year of raising the retirement age is a 6.5 percent cut in benefits that are already very modest.
10/6/2010
I hope this committee will recognize that the retirement income deficit we are leaving for the Gen Xers is at least as s...
10/6/2010
It is time for our Nation to face the retirement crisis head-on.
10/6/2010
The average benefit is about $14,000--less than a minimum wage income--and Social Security provides more than half the i...
10/6/2010
Do you think giving workers that kind of information would, No. 1, encourage retirement savings?
10/6/2010
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Tom  Harkin
out of office

usa, Iowa

2,994 Quotes

Born11/19/1939 (age 85)

PartyDemocratic

  • United States Senator

    1/3/1985 - 1/3/2015
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