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Willie Hefner: “As one that is going to leave this place shortly, I certainly hope that we find some way to shore up Social Security.…”

On the recordApril 29, 1998
As one that is going to leave this place shortly, I certainly hope that we find some way to shore up Social Security. But I would like to not correct one thing but make a comment about what my colleague from California said, about in 1993 when we passed a budget and we added some tax we counted 85 percent of Social Security, but it was just for a certain group. And I would remind the gentleman it was Ronald Reagan who had it at 50 percent, so that everybody has a little bit culpability there. But I think we ought to be very careful when we start talking about Social Security.
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Willie Hefner
Democratic · North Carolina

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Discussing the importance of Social Security and referencing past budget decisions.

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