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Martin Hoke: What I will say is we are going to on Wednesday restore the $25 billion in cuts that were made in Social Security, cuts…

On the recordApril 3, 1995
What I will say is we are going to on Wednesday restore the $25 billion in cuts that were made in Social Security, cuts to senior citizens by this Congress. Not a single Republican voted in favor of those cuts in August of 1993, and we are going to restore those cuts so that senior citizens are not deprived of their Social Security benefits that were deprived to them by the Democrat Members of the House and of the Senate.
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Martin Hoke
Republican · Ohio

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Discussing the restoration of Social Security cuts during a House floor speech.

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