[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 15733]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    STATEMENT OF INTRODUCTION FOR THE NAZI SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS 
                        TERMINATION ACT OF 2014

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                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, November 13, 2014

  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, today I am 
introducing the bipartisan Nazi Social Security Benefits Termination 
Act of 2014 along with my colleagues Representatives Jason Chaffetz, 
Leonard Lance, Steve Cohen, James McGovern, Kathy Castor, Peter King, 
Hank Johnson, David Cicilline, Keith Ellison, Patrick Murphy, Steve 
Israel, Derek Kilmer, and Jackie Speier. I commend Sens. Bob Casey and 
Charles Schumer for introducing the Senate companion.
  After the conclusion of World War II, thousands of people who 
participated in Nazi persecution fled to the United States and lied 
about their pasts to gain U.S. citizenship. The Department of Justice 
has successfully identified and deported hundreds of these individuals 
over more than three decades. There were, however, individuals who left 
the country of their own accord before being issued an order of 
removal, which would have terminated all federal benefits, including 
Social Security. Without this order, eligibility for these benefits 
remained intact and these individuals collected millions of dollars in 
federal benefit checks.
  The Nazi Social Security Benefits Termination Act of 2014 would 
require the U.S. Attorney General to notify the Social Security 
Commissioner to terminate benefits for any individual who has renounced 
citizenship or been denaturalized on the grounds of participation in 
Nazi persecution. In the event that the Department of Justice 
identifies Nazi war criminals still residing in the U.S., it may 
initiate its denaturalization process as normal, and this rule change 
would allow benefits termination at the end of that process. The 
measure also requires an annual report to Congress from the Department 
of Justice on the number of individuals it has determined are 
disqualified for Social Security benefits under this new legislation as 
well as the number of active investigations against Nazi war criminals 
it continues to pursue.
  I urge my colleagues to cosponsor this legislation that would finally 
put an end to this grave misuse of federal dollars. After decades of 
paying out benefits to Nazi criminals who slipped through our justice 
system, it is past time to correct this injustice.

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