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Concurrent Resolution on the Budget, Fiscal Year 2016 -- Continued

Floor Speech

Date: March 26, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Senior Citizens Entitlements and the Safety Net

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Ms. WARREN. Mr. President, more than ever, our seniors depend on
safety and reliability of Social Security. For 15 million seniors,
Social Security is the only thing that stands between them and poverty.

For too long in Washington, Social Security has been under assault.
Republicans have long argued that we have to gut the program to save
it. Well, they are wrong. We shouldn't be talking about gutting Social
Security. We should be talking about strengthening Social Security. We
should be talking about protecting Social Security. We should be
talking about expanding Social Security.

This amendment supports those goals. We acknowledge the need to make
certain the program is solvent--something that people can depend on. We
reject the false choice that too many Republicans have put forward to
scare our seniors into believing they must absorb drastic cuts in the
benefits they depend on. And we believe when two-thirds of the
seniors----

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