Sheila Jackson Lee: “I thank the distinguished gentleman from Connecticut for yielding. He is long serving and longstanding, and I have been…”

“I thank the distinguished gentleman from Connecticut for yielding. He is long serving and longstanding, and I have been together with Mr. Larson on this issue it has to be two decades, and I can only thank him for realizing that people will simply die--I am going to say that--without the lifeline of Social Security. He has recognized that, and that is why we are in the fight. That is why we have to continue the fight. That is why we have to come back in the next Congress and get this done because if it is not done in this Congress--we must get it done. We must get it done. Let me give you breaking news. Let me tell you why we are all on the floor, why there are 12 Members on the floor and there were others on the floor previously. This is a national crisis. The House Republican Study Committee, a caucus of 176 House Republican Members, has proposed multiple harsh cuts to Social Security in the fiscal year 2024 budget. Although the budget is vague on details, they will be holding--and may have held--a press conference, and reporting has come out that they intend to cut your Social Security. They intend to violate the very special sacred trust--yes, do violence to the sacred trust that from the days of President Roosevelt every American--except those, of course, that were in some of the professions of people of color that we had to fix--every American felt that they could live, that they could survive because of Social Security.…”