The agency collects between $4 and $7 for every $1 of funding.
Any serious discussion of energy policy and tax reform must begin with fully funding the agency.
This resource is critical to our future.
However, I must express my disappointment that we are not gathered here to discuss the most pressing issue of the day, the ongoing debt ceil...
There seems to be no sense of urgency to help get Americans back to work.
I have been here for almost 25 years, and attended many hearings. But this has been one of the most painful.
It is not something that we should sweep under the rug or in some dark corner. We should face it, and face it head on.
I believe that we need to fund the agency. Republican budget cuts harm beneficiaries, harm taxpayers, and harm the Social Security Trust Fun...
The truth is that the agency's overpayment rate is extremely low.
The agency needs more funding, more money, more staffing, more resources. It is that simple.
Republican budget cuts are being used to put the Social Security Administration in a very bad light.