Political Quotes

“I want to call to my colleagues' attention a situation that arose recently in my Las Vegas office concerning the illegal use of a Social Security number. A constituent of mine applied for public assistance benefits. Thereafter what followed was a routine Social Security check that turned up an illegal immigrant using her son's Social Security number. Parenthetically, it was also later discovered that this same individual using the illegal Social Security number belonging to the son of my constituent was also using a forged INS card at his place of employment. Now, when this information was brought to the attention of the Las Vegas Social Security office, my constituent was informed that no investigation of this fraudulent card use would be undertaken because of Social Security Administration policy. You can imagine what her reaction was--one of anger and one of disbelief. Here is a person who applies for public assistance benefits, discovers that someone is illegally using her young son's Social Security card number, and then learns there is nothing that can be done about it. Mr. President, tragically, such a response only tends to confirm our citizens' disappointment, disillusionment and, indeed, mistrust of the Federal Government.”