[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13391]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            CELEBRATING THE 75TH BIRTHDAY OF SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Ms. HIRONO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. HIRONO. Mr. Speaker, this year we celebrate the 75th birthday of 
Social Security.
  Since Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social 
Security Act in 1935, Americans have known that they can rely on Social 
Security benefits when they retire.
  Today, over 160,000 Hawaii seniors and millions of seniors in every 
other State receive monthly Social Security benefits, but Republican 
leaders in Congress have a new plan to privatize Social Security, 
balancing the budget on the backs of our seniors. Does this sound 
familiar?
  George Bush and congressional Republicans fought to privatize Social 
Security in 2005. Seniors all across the country rose up in angry 
protest. If Republicans had succeeded then, seniors would have lost 
trillions in the stock market meltdown of the Bush recession.
  Unbelievably, the Republicans still have not given up on their idea 
to privatize Social Security. You have to ask, what is it that makes 
them so deaf to what seniors in our country tell me loud and clear--
preserve Social Security.

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