Brian Higgins: “As this has been said, the first Social Security check went out in 1940 and has never missed a payment, which speaks to…”

I just simply want to say--and I have heard very clearly your testimony, it has been very valuable to me in terms of learning a little bit more about this extraordinary program that, by the way, lifted 50 percent of American seniors out of…

The budget deficit...has dropped to 5.5 percent at the end of last year.

Next Friday $25 billion in Social Security benefits are scheduled to be paid out but will not if the nation defaults on its debt.

Seventy percent of American debt is owed to Americans.