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Byron Dorgan: “I ask the Senator from Nevada one additional question. Why Social Security? I suppose some would say, well, there other…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 1997
I ask the Senator from Nevada one additional question. Why Social Security? I suppose some would say, well, there other areas that ought to be excluded. The Social Security area is one of the largest areas of public spending and has had accrued surpluses now available, needed to be available for meeting the time when the baby boom generation will retire. So are there other programs like it? Or is this the major issue that will have a distorted impact if this constitutional amendment as currently worded would be enacted by Congress?
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Questioning the implications of a constitutional amendment on Social Security during Senate debate.

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