John Shaw: “I said a repudiation of private accounts, not privatization. There is a big difference.”

Mr. Chairman, the Social Security so-called totalization agreements permit the United States and another country to coordinate their Social Security programs. The Social Security Administration has totalization agreements in force with 20…

I want to introduce to my colleagues someone that they may already know, Ida May Fuller. Ida May was the recipient of the first Social Security check ever issued. In 1940, the year Ida May began collecting, Social Security was a dream come…

Florida is bleeding. It is bleeding. We have had tremendous damage all throughout the State. Four hurricanes in one year. There is nobody in this House, there is nobody alive today that can remember the tremendous suffering that one State…

I would like to close with a couple of quotes. The first is I would like to quote President Clinton at Georgetown University on February 9 of 1998. This is an exact quote. He said, ``So that all of these achievements, the economic…