Matt Cartwright: “We are kind of coming up on a similar thing right now. We have broadband internet access in most places in this country…”

Ranking Member Larson has that right, and I thank the gentleman for answering my questions. Tonight, I am here to speak on behalf of 191,000 people from northeastern Pennsylvania who depend on Social Security checks coming in to keep them…

These are men and women that have dedicated their lives to the protection of American citizens.

I have one final question for Ranking Member Larson. This idea of raising the retirement age, as the gentleman has explained very well, constitutes a cut in benefits for every year Republicans raise it. Economists have worked out how much…

You know that in northeastern Pennsylvania, our economy has been bumping along since the decline of coal mining, since NAFTA, which bestowed benefits and burdens across our nation, but unevenly across our geography.