[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 107 (Tuesday, July 20, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H5740]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 DEMOCRATS STAND BEHIND SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mr. LARSON of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Madam Speaker, I rise today to talk about 
Social Security. I rise because our colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle in this past weekend alone have said they want to return--they 
want to return to the Bush years. They want to return to privatizing 
Social Security. They want to do so so that they can help balance the 
deficit by cutting Social Security.
  Can you imagine, had the Bush tax cuts gone through, had the Bush 
proposal for Social Security gone through, what would happen to so many 
of our citizens during this great recession? People who rely solely on 
Social Security would not have anywhere to turn to.
  The concept and the idea we often criticize our colleagues saying 
they have no plan, but in fact they do. They want to privatize Social 
Security. Yes, they want to privatize Social Security. They want to 
voucher Medicare. They want to block grant Medicaid, and then they want 
to turn around and take your health benefits and treat them as ordinary 
income and tax them.
  Ladies and gentlemen, members of the Democratic Caucus stand firmly 
behind Social Security and its benefits to all the American people.

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