Frank Pallone: “Mr. Speaker, as I look at my lapel and see the burqa cloth, I am reminded today that we pretty much stood with the…”

“Mr. Speaker, as I look at my lapel and see the burqa cloth, I am reminded today that we pretty much stood with the Afghanistan women to say free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last. As I look at the burqa, I am reminded of the issue of Social Security and women, and how they are not saying free at last because of this report that has just come out from the President's commission. There were some of us who went and talked with the commission to let them know some of the adverse provisions of Social Security and how it impacts women, the elderly and the disabled; and yet this report comes out, and indeed it has those very things that we thought it would have, and how it impacts in an adverse way women and the disabled and the elderly.”