[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16003]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                    NO SOCIAL SECURITY FOR NAZIS ACT

  (Mr. BECERRA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BECERRA. Mr. Speaker, today, 160 million Americans pay into 
Social Security every day that they work, and as a result, they know 
that they and their families will be protected if they die, become 
disabled, or retire.
  For most of the 58 million Americans who currently receive Social 
Security, a Social Security benefit check is their most important 
source of income. We recently learned that some Nazi war criminals and 
collaborators slipped through a loophole in our law and are in fact 
receiving these very same Social Security benefits.
  I am pleased to join with my dear friend and colleague from Texas, 
Mr. Sam Johnson, to introduce the No Social Security for Nazis Act, 
which tightly closes this very loophole.
  As the chairman and the ranking member of the Social Security 
Subcommittee, Mr. Johnson and I have the responsibility to safeguard 
Social Security, and I believe this bill is the right way to do that.
  Like past Congresses, we believe that there is no place for the 
Holocaust perpetrators in the United States of America, and if there is 
no place for them in our country, then there is certainly no place for 
them in our crown jewel, Social Security.
  I hope we can move quickly to enact this legislation before Social 
Security is required to pay another dime to a Nazi war criminal.
  I thank Chairman Johnson for his tireless work on this issue, and I 
urge my colleagues to join Chairman Johnson and me in sponsoring the No 
Social Security for Nazis Act.

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