Look, we have a long track record in Pennsylvania and my fellow Democratic attorneys general have a long track record of holding this president accountable when he breaks the law.
Josh Shapiro
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Josh Shapiro is the 48th Governor of Pennsylvania, having taken office on January 17, 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2023, where he focused on issues such as consumer protection, public safety, and civil rights. Shapiro has been an advocate for transparency in government and has emphasized the importance of community engagement in development projects.
I guess I will say, I will believe it when I see it. I will not let my foot off the gas so long as the postal officials continue to violate the law.
We're gathering evidence right now. We're looking at how it's worked in the past.
I am a huge believer that if you empower the population that you are there to serve and protect, and they can stop a scam in their tracks, ultimately there is less work for attorneys general, district attorneys, and others to do, and that…
I absolutely respect the Congress's efforts to collect outstanding debts. I just think that more focus needs to be on how those calls are made and doing so in a way that is more transparent.
We need, in law enforcement, to have all of the tools necessary to stop this.
We are hopeful that as the Congress considers funding bills and other initiatives, that there be resources put in specifically to driving home that message and focusing on education.
Look, we have Do Not Call lists, and often times seniors will say to me and Senator Casey, when we are back in Pennsylvania, 'But they still called.'
I would respectfully request to this Committee that you carefully look at the effects of permitting debt collectors, working on behalf of the IRS, to make telephonic calls to people whom they are collecting debts.
Having access to barges and storage tanks and pipelines gives the bank additional options to move or store commodities that most energy traders do not pursue.
the average benefit you are paying to someone who retired in the past year, ... was approximately $1,400 per month.
It is impossible to come up with a precise figure, and we have tried. Right now we have been estimating somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 percent of all plans have a danger of insolvency.
My personal feeling is that the recent move we have seen to combined contribution plans in the past decades is setting us up for a real problem of an entire generation of completely broke 75-year-olds.
We actually had people come and talk to us from other countries to ask the questions of, how do your plans work?
I definitely don't have the solution at this point, so I can't truly answer your question as it was asked.
I think it is pretty clear to us at this point that defined benefit plans are posing a problem for employers.





