Brian Higgins: “Now we are seeing Buffalo go through a major economic renaissance.”

It is not only inefficient, it is awful, and it is inhumane.

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

I am so encouraged by the direction this Congress is taking from a bipartisan perspective to push forward, quite righteously, the Social Security Fairness Act to eliminate WEP and GPO.

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…