Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank the majority leader for those comments and for his leadership on this and so much else, including the subject that Senator Wyden and I will be talking about today: Social Security. I rise to discuss an issue that Senator Wyden and I have worked on, and I am honored to be part of this with a Senator who began his career active in the Gray Panthers. So his commitment to Social Security almost goes back to almost before I was born, if I can say it that way. Everything we do here--everything we do here--should come back to the dignity of work; the idea that hard work should pay off for everybody no matter who you are, no matter where you live, no matter what kind of work you do to support yourself and your family. When work has dignity, people always, always, always should have a secure retirement. That means they can count on Medicare. It means they can count on Social Security. It means we protect in this body--Senator Markey has been very involved in this, too, as the Presiding Officer. It means we protect people's pensions. It means people should make enough to save. It is why we saved--this body. I remember sitting here with Senator Casey on March 6, 2021, and saying to him this was the best day of my career, when we voted 51 to 50 to save the pensions of 100,000 people in Ohio, over a million workers around the country, the same day we passed the Child Tax Credit extension, which dropped the poverty rate in this country by 40 percent.…”