Brian Higgins: “We have defined operational control in this bill based on the oversight work of the committee.”

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.

Yes, the debt is a problem, but the way that you deal with that is through economic growth.

America remains the world's richest, most dynamic, and productive economy.

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…