On the recordApril 17, 1996
The idea that we told him and other seniors, "Don't go try to earn more money to have a good life, because we're going to take your Social Security away if you dare go out and continue to work," was an insult to him. One of the sterling accomplishments of this Congress has been to raise that earned income limitation now to $30,000, so now seniors can earn up to $30,000 without affecting their Social Security check. I remember telling the audience that night, I said, "Dad, this one's for you." This one is for all the seniors who have been asking us to do that for so long, and to stop this awful tax on their Social Security benefits that was imposed during the early years of the Clinton administration, and this House did that. It has repealed the tax on the Social Security checks that seniors get around the country.
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