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Steve Lynch: “There is another important number in this bill, and that number is $119 billion--$119 billion. You might ask why that…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2010
There is another important number in this bill, and that number is $119 billion--$119 billion. You might ask why that number is important. That is the amount of money that this bill will rob from the Social Security trust fund if it is implemented, at a time when more and more of our seniors rely on Social Security as their sole source of income, at a time when more and more of our seniors are vulnerable and are on fixed income and can't go out and get a second job, at a time when more American workers are desperately needing Social Security benefits because their defined benefit pensions have gone away, any kind of pensions have gone away. ... Vote ``no'' on this measure.
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Steve Lynch
Democratic · Massachusetts
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govinfo.gov
Dec 16, 2010

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Speaker Lynch addresses the impact of a bill on the Social Security trust fund and its implications for seniors.

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