Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, we have a great injustice that has persisted now for four decades. Some of our hardest working fellow Americans who are public servants in certain States where they have non-Social Security covered employment--or to say it this way, where they have teacher retirement systems separate from Social Security, or firefighter retirement systems separate from Social Security--have what is called a windfall elimination provision in the Social Security law, which has shortchanged roughly 2 million hardworking public servants. Some people are still getting a windfall, but the vast majority are not getting what they earned and what they put into the Social Security system. So my colleague, Representative John Larson, who I serve with on the Committee on Ways and Means, and who I consider a dear friend and someone who I know is very passionate about fixing Social Security's insolvency, which looms large over the next 10 years, this is but one element of what is not working in Social Security for our retirees and Social Security recipients. To solve this inequity and injustice, some of my colleagues have decided they would just repeal the windfall elimination provision altogether. That sounds good, but it is going to cost $192 billion to do that.…”