10/15/2008
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"This is not about today's retirees, who are safe; there will be no change for them."
"We need to take steps now to modernize Social Security."
"I determined that the exercise of authorities in Executive Order 13290 should continue in order to address the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303."
"I ordered that certain blocked funds held in the United States in accounts in the name of the Government of Iraq be confiscated and vested in the Department of the Treasury."