[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5116]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Mrs. KIRKPATRICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I stand here on behalf of my 
district's seniors, veterans, and working families to say that I 
strongly oppose cuts to Social Security in the President's budget. 
Every week, my case workers in Arizona report back to me about our 
constituents, and every week I hear about another senior who is 
struggling or another veteran who is struggling.
  Our rural towns are filled with hard workers, but work is hard to 
find. These are folks who may never have the protections of a pension, 
so they must have the protection of Social Security.
  The President's budget uses a formula called chained CPI. It 
recalculates how the cost of living is calculated, and it will not keep 
up with inflation.
  So let's call this formula what it really is: a shrinking Social 
Security check for the people who need it most. Yes, we have to make 
cuts, and we need to do more with less, but seniors and veterans are 
already doing that. We can do better than sticking them with the tab.

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