[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 2, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H1217-H1218]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    SOCIAL SECURITY AND OUR ELDERLY

  (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. Mr. Speaker, more than 900,000 people in 
the United States have lost their lives due to COVID. Of those more 
than 900,000, 660,000 people over age 65 have been lost because of 
COVID. This is the same population that was not only worried and 
concerned about COVID, but they are the ones on a fixed income. They 
are the ones that rely on Social Security.

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  More than 5 million of our fellow Americans get a below-poverty-level 
check from Social Security after having paid in all their lives to the 
number one insurance program in the country, the number one anti-
poverty program for the elderly, and the number one anti-poverty 
program for children. Help is on the way.
  Social Security 2100, a sacred trust, as the President called it, is 
a bill that will uplift and raise people out of the depths of poverty 
and provide them with the sustenance they need in their daily lives, as 
Roosevelt intended.

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