As I read the conference report, there is no increase in any year for education, other than the sense-of-the-Senate language buried deep in the document that every Senator knows isn't worth the paper it is written on because it means zero.
Discussing the education funding in the conference report during Senate debate.
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This Retirement Security Plan structure that we have suggested I think would go a long way toward dealing with these issues.
I urge you to vote for the confirmation of Dave Turk. I urge you to do it quickly.
We all know that Social Security is going to have to be dealt with, or we are going to face by 2034 at the latest--many of us believe it will be earlier than that---an across-the-board 23-percent cut.
I do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.
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