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Roger Wicker: “If we cannot do that to save the system and to save a successful program, then we are pretty well not going to be able…”

On the recordFebruary 11, 2013
If we cannot do that to save the system and to save a successful program, then we are pretty well not going to be able to save Medicare and Social Security in the future.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker emphasizes the need to protect Social Security and Medicare.

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