Frank Pallone: “First of all, there is no question that this debate over the next two days is totally political and being done by the…”

“First of all, there is no question that this debate over the next two days is totally political and being done by the Republican leadership because they are looking for votes in the November election, because we already know that it is very unlikely that the Senate would even take up this legislation, and the President, of course, has vowed to veto the legislation. So we are not even talking about anything that could possibly happen or be signed into law in time before the Congress adjourns. So the whole debate on the Republican side is totally partisan, totally oriented towards the November election in an effort to garner votes. The other thing that my colleague from Washington pointed out that I think is so important is that the money that has been generated by the Social Security surplus has been generated because we know that the baby-boom generation a few years from now is going to be very large and there are going to be a lot more seniors that need Social Security benefits.”