Brian Higgins

If these people, these individuals, 62 million people did not have Social Security, what would they do?

What can we do to make it better? What can we do to make it stronger?

For every dollar that you provide for Social Security benefits, you get $1.50 in economic output.

This is not a giveaway. This is the Federal Insurance Contributions Act. People pay during their working years this retirement account from which they should expect reasonably to be able to take advantage of it.

Based on the facts, you know, Social Security benefits are spent. So for every dollar that you provide for Social Security benefits, you get $1.50 in economic output.

Thank you for your leadership on this initiative again and I appreciate the ranking member's willingness to work in a cooperative manner toward the goal of preserving what we all want to preserve.

My colleagues on the other side can say they support people with preexisting conditions all they want, but the reality is that they continue to support efforts to undermine these protections that Americans want.

You can't do that anymore. It is against the law because of the Affordable Care Act.

The Medicare program did what private insurance companies had the opportunity to do and decided not to.

Nobody up here, not one person up here, supports preexisting condition protections for the American people.

Everybody up here does not support preexisting condition protections.

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However, the White House infrastructure plan, in my estimation, is another thinly veiled hit on local and state taxpayers.

Infrastructure is obviously a centerpiece of this bill with 159,000 structurally deficient bridges in America.

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That is pathetic and indicative of a country that seems to be capitulating, economically, to China.

In the last two decades, we have lost six million manufacturing jobs.

Obviously, the North American Free Trade Agreement is over two decades old.