[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13387]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   SOCIAL SECURITY'S 75TH ANNIVERSARY

  (Mr. WALZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WALZ. Mr. Speaker, as we approach the 75th anniversary of the 
founding of Social Security, it's a time to reflect on the generations 
and the hundreds of millions of Americans who through good times and 
bad counted on Social Security to be there to have dignity in 
retirement, to provide quality of life.
  There is millions of stories out there very similar to the one in my 
family. As a young man watching my father die of a lengthy illness, and 
a 9-year old brother at home, and a stay-at-home mother, watching 
Social Security survivor benefits be there to allow my little brother 
to go on and go to college and my mother to retrain as a nurse and go 
back into the workforce. Many people will say, and they're absolutely 
right, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. They are right about that. 
We just didn't have any boots. They were loaned to us by Social 
Security. And for that we have paid that back 10 times over.
  A family is stronger, a community is stronger, our country is 
stronger. In August we should celebrate the 75th anniversary and many 
more to come.

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