Orrin Hatch: “despite many claims to the contrary, this budget contains no substantive changes to Social Security.”

It has been one of the great honors of my life to serve on this committee.

It is important to support the ability of retirement plans to honor commitments made to working Americans.

I know of no further debate on the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? Hearing none, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (H.R. 1551), as amended, was passed.

Those backlogs at the Social Security Administration are unacceptable to many, if not most, of us here in the Senate.