[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16652]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        IRAQ AND SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, my colleague just before me 
indicated the crisis that we have in America where a young man is sent 
off four times to Iraq and not able to see his family.
  Well, maybe the young soldier that I buried the other day, Nathaniel 
Parker, who got liver disease in Iraq and died languishing in one of 
our military hospitals, or maybe the tragedy of 70 who died after a 
suicide explosion there are crises that we should be focusing on. Then, 
of course, our friends on the other side of the aisle want to insist 
that Americans change their basic infrastructure pension, that is, 
Social Security. We know that whatever plan they have is going to cut 
America's benefits. In fact, middle-class Americans will have their 
benefits cut 40 percent.
  Social Security should not be privatized. It can be fixed. It can be 
extended. Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill did it in 1983.
  Women most of all will be hurt. More than 24 million women receive 
Social Security. So I say to my colleagues here in the House, the 
Democrats realize that a faulty plan is no plan on Social Security. A 
faulty plan on the war is no plan. Let us get together and solve 
America's problems.

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