In the end, though, this Commission has made many decisions, many rules, completely disregarding the cost, the lack of choice it is going to give consumers, the inability of small companies to comply with these regulations all in the name…

If I am confirmed, I will work to assure that the mission of the agency to protect consumers from unreasonable risk of injury from consumer products is carried out aggressively and appropriately.

Reclaiming my time, in fact, for years Congress has spent the Social Security surplus on other things, and it looked as though those things were all affordable because in fact it did not look like deficit spending, when in fact it was…

I am so delighted to be here with my friends and colleagues who also are very committed to strengthening Social Security to make sure that it not only is strong and a viable program for current seniors and for those of us that are the baby…

Reclaiming my time, it is really a matter of restoring the confidence of the American people that we are going to act in the best long-term interests, fiscal interests, of this country. So I thank the gentlewoman very much for her thoughts…

Reclaiming my time, it is a huge amount of money. It would be a great investment in the long-term solvency of the program. I did not know whether the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Hart) might want to talk a little bit about the…

Well, I am so excited. I know that the gentlewoman is on the committee that is heading this up. It is an enormous challenge and you all are doing a fabulous job. As the rest of us worry about this and study it and provide ideas, we are so…

tonight we are eager to talk about Social Security and to talk about what it means to this country, to our seniors, to those that are about to be seniors and to our younger generations, our children, our grandchildren who will support the…

reclaiming my time, if today Social Security was just being designed, if we knew that people who get to be 65 are probably going to live 17 more years, if we knew that you were going to work a certain number of years and then you were…

I am so impressed that the gentleman from Texas would tell us he has six grandchildren. My husband and I, after 36 years of marriage and six children, have one grandchild. I hope that I will catch you someday. They are the most blessed…

reclaiming my time, I agree that it was a very interesting discussion. I will say, and I know that our younger generation would appreciate this, that in the course of conversations, there was one person that said, Let me just ask you this…

I see that the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston) has joined us, and I yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston).

reclaiming my time, I know our time is about up. So let me start by yielding to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan) to see if he has any final thoughts or anything he wants to say in conclusion.

I will give all of my colleagues a chance to respond to the presentation of the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan), and I thank the gentleman for his hard work. It is very difficult with all of the numbers and all of the actuarial work…

reclaiming my time, let me close by thanking my colleagues who are here tonight. The gentleman from Elkhart, Indiana (Mr. Chocola) has been a friend who has been on the floor. We have had opportunities to discuss this previously, and I…

I agree. We are all looking for the best possible solution. I think when you ask the question, can we afford to wait, the follow- up question is, or what we often hear from the other side of the aisle, we do not have a crisis now because…

I thank the gentleman; and I want to yield to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Chocola) to also discuss the trust find and why we cannot wait and depend on the trust fund. {time} 2145

reclaiming my time, I am over 55 and many of my friends are over 55. I hear it more often from people that are 49, that say, now, wait a minute, if you are going to cut off the people who can benefit from these at 50, I only have a year to…

I also would like to address the trust fund issue. I often use as an example an analogy that most people in every home can understand. I would say if you came home from work every week and you put some of your paycheck in a cookie jar for…

that is true and certainly in an accounting system, no one would approve an accounting system where the assets that are coming in are going to have to meet future liabilities without also accounting for those future liabilities. If you can…

I rise to add my voice to others' about the importance of education and making sure that quality education is available to every child. As the mother of six children, when I have students that visit Washington, they often ask me, where did…

there is not one Member of Congress who would ever jeopardize the safety of their constituents. We all agree, no matter what the costs of prescription drugs are, safety is the first, most important thing, but the wildly exaggerated claims…

Mr. Speaker, despite the histrionics we have seen tonight, there is not one Member of Congress that would vote for a bill that would endanger the people in this country, not the seniors, not our children, and no one in between. The false…

Mr. Chairman, UPS's primary hub is located in my district. The United Parcel Service, known as UPS around the world, employs 22,000 people in my district. It just completed a $1 billion expansion and is the largest taxpayer in the State of…