Mike Johnson
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Mike Johnson is an American attorney and politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Johnson has focused on various issues during his tenure, including fiscal responsibility and national security. He has been involved in legislative discussions surrounding war funding and government operations, emphasizing the need for appropriate timing and details in such matters.
Unfortunately, due to ObamaCare, it is actually becoming harder for employers to provide their employees with affordable coverage.
This nation was founded on the principles that if you work hard and you put your sweat equity into something...
Let's not throw the entire baby out with the bath water and say we are going to eliminate the estate tax, all together.
The estate tax was originally instituted to ensure that the very wealthiest families... could contribute back to that system.
Change does not happen overnight. It is very, very important in its mission, and I think Joe Clancy is the right person to get us there.
Sequestration assumes that the Nation's debt is out of control, and so, therefore, we must cut spending.
Why would we have a Disability Trust Fund that says, 'Do you know what? If you go back to work, you are going to lose your benefit.' Why? We can do better than that.
We cannot keep kicking the can down the road. The American people want, need and deserve a solution.
This is an important time for the Disability Insurance Program, and I am committed to making sure the benefits millions of Americans and their families count on are there for them, while also making the program work better.
I will give you my public commitment, as you have given your public commitment to me, to work in a bipartisan basis to accomplish good reforms for the disabled and the recipients of these benefits.
We are going to improve that program, and we are going to allow you to have the greatest maximum capability of your life.
We have to signal seriousness in this by making sure some of the hard decisions that are made under our watch today, that they are not someone else's in the future.
The President's proposal would align the solvency dates of the retirement and disability program to 2033; is that correct?
So the President's plan basically doubles the retirement program's shortfall in order to give disability more money. Is that correct?
So if I have this right, over the next five years, the President wants to take 330 billion from the retirement program that's going broke and give it to the disability program, which will be broke next year if we don't do anything.
I don't know if we can ever figure out how to solve the shortfall, but you all are here to help.
Social Security does face a challenge, but it's a manageable one, one I look forward to addressing on a bipartisan basis.
I do not think the way we fix that is cutting the Social Security Administration by 5,000 people when the work load is going up.





