My father-in-law is a railroad retiree, and he gets his check from Social Security. Now, Mr. President, I do not know what it is, what kind of fund he has, but they did not have enough funds to take care of it and they turned it over to Social Security, and Social Security is now taking care of those retired railroad people.
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