Political Quotes

“I rise tonight to discuss Social Security. It is going to be almost like a professor lecturing a class. So everybody that is interested in Social Security should listen up. Those that are not interested in Social Security should be because it is America's biggest program, probably the United States Government's most important program. When I came to Congress in 1993, I left the Michigan Senate as chairman of the Taxation Committee. At that time, we were looking at the consequences of low investment and savings. I discovered that, in the United States, we have the lowest savings of any industrialized country in the world. And then I started looking at Social Security and the problems that Social Security was having in terms of the demographics in terms of financing the current promises in future years. When I came to Congress, what I did in 1993, I introduced my first Social Security bill. And then 2 years later, in 1995, 1997, and 1999, I introduced subsequent Social Security bills, all scored by the Social Security Administration to keep Social Security solvent for the next 75 years. I have been serving as chairman of the Bipartisan Task Force on Social Security in the Committee on the Budget. With testimony we received, we came up with 18 unanimous recommendations of what should be in a Social Security bill. I incorporated those and introduced a bipartisan bill that is now before the House.”