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• We must help our most vulnerable citizens. (Aug 2017)

• Rated 20% by ARA, indicating a mixed record on senior issues. (Jan 2013)

• Increase benefits for widows/widowers instead of cutting. (Sep 2020)
• Protect Social Security & Medicare: “You have my word”. (Aug 2020)
• Social Security is a sacred obligation. (Aug 2020)
• Increase Social Security benefits without cuts. (Mar 2020)
• 6.2% FICA tax on all earnings over $400,000. (Feb 2020)
• Restructure tax code while protecting Social Security. (Jan 2020)
• Freeze entitlements; don’t favor special interests. (Aug 2018)
• Where would elderly be now if funds were in stock market? (Oct 2012)
• Raise the $97,500 cap, but don’t raise retirement age. (Sep 2007)
• Prevent senior fraud by educating seniors about caution. (Nov 2002)
• Voted NO on Social Security Lockbox & limiting national debt. (Apr 1999)
• Voted YES on allowing Roth IRAs for retirees. (May 1998)
• Voted NO on allowing personal retirement accounts. (Apr 1998)
• Voted YES on deducting Social Security payments on income taxes. (May 1996)
• Rated 89% by the ARA, indicating a pro-senior voting record. (Dec 2003)

• No use of S.S. Number except Social Security business. (May 2020)
• Allow people to withdraw funds and privately invest them. (May 2020)
• Privatize Social Security, but pay current benefits. (May 2020)

• 2009: Called Social Security a “Ponzi scheme”. (Feb 2020)
• 2009: Social Security a Ponzi scheme, 2020: boost receipts. (Feb 2020)
• New minimum benefit; expand support for senior savings. (Jan 2020)
• Don’t kick the can down the road with retirement funding. (Dec 2017)
• To reduce the deficit we must cut entitlements. (Mar 2013)

• Raise the cap on Social Security taxes to fund system. (Mar 2019)
• COLA adjustments needed for retirement plans. (Apr 2017)
• Once supported raising retirement age; now opposes it. (Apr 2017)
• Opposes raising the retirement age for several decades. (Aug 2014)
• Don’t raise retirement age, except maybe for young workers. (Aug 2013)
• Opposes raising retirement age; expand entitlements. (Aug 2013)

• Would establish $90/day benefit for long-term care. (Nov 2019)
• Double Social Security’s payroll-tax cap to $250,000. (Jul 2019)

• Trust Fund needs immigrants to shore up Baby Boomers. (Jul 2019)

No stance on record.

• Raise retirement age and contributions cap. (Mar 2020)
• Social Security is broke. (Nov 2018)
• Divert some Soc.Sec. taxes to personal retirement accounts. (Nov 2016)

• Take money for Social Security from military & tax giveaways. (Nov 2019)
• No budget cuts to Medicare and Social Security. (Nov 2012)
• Rated 100% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance. (Jan 2013)

• Against privatization. (Nov 2006)
• Strengthen Trust Funds and take them off-budget. (May 2001)
• Opposes private retirement accounts. (Aug 2010)
• Reject privatization; don’t raise the retirement age. (Aug 2010)
• Sponsored keeping CPI for benefits instead of lower “Chained CPI”. (Apr 2013)
• Rated 92% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance. (Jan 2013)

• Put real money in the Trust Fund & invest it properly. (Dec 2006)
• Let beneficiaries leave surplus funds to heirs. (Apr 2006)

• Trump deficits will endanger Social Security. (Jul 2019)
• Oppose entitlement cuts; strengthen these safety nets. (Aug 2016)

• Supports doubling Social Security benefits. (Aug 2020)
• Apply FICA tax to all levels of income including investments. (Jul 2020)
• The most regressive tax of all is the FICA payroll tax. (Apr 2019)
• The most regressive tax of all is the FICA payroll tax. (Apr 2019)
• Universal Social Security via Basic Income Grants. (Nov 2006)

• Protect Social Security; oppose attempts to reduce benefits. (Sep 2020)
• Protect and bolster Social Security, Medicare. (Jul 2020)
• Update constitutional barriers in state’s retirement program. (Jan 2012)

• Allow opt out: IRAs safe from greedy politicians. (Nov 2020)
• Allow Americans to opt out of Social Security system. (Jul 2020)

• Deal with all entitlements or we’ll drown in debt. (Aug 2017)
• Fix Social Security: keep the promise. (Apr 2017)
• Fix Social Security by lowering benefits. (Oct 2015)
• More 18-year-olds believe in UFOs than in getting Soc.Sec. (May 2006)
• Personal Retirement Savings Accounts invest 2% privately. (May 1999)
• Voted YES on reducing tax payments on Social Security benefits. (Jul 2000)
• Reduce taxes on Social Security earnings. (Sep 1994)

• Raise cap above “donut hole”: FICA over $250,000. (Feb 2020)
• Proposed new retirement accounts for those without. (Apr 2019)
• Address national debt without cutting entitlements. (Feb 2019)
• No raising retirement age; no cost of living increase. (Oct 2006)
• President’s privatization scheme puts us at risk. (Jan 2006)
• Raise cap from $90,000 for paying in. (Jan 2006)
• Privatization is a risky scheme. (Jan 2006)
• Make Social Security more secure for the long term. (Jan 2006)
• Incentives for private retirement options. (Jan 2006)
• Voted NO on establishing reserve funds & pre-funding for Social Security. (Mar 2007)
• Rated 99% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance. (Jan 2013)

• Cap benefits to three times those receiving minimum. (Aug 2020)
• No privatization of Social Security. (Jan 2008)

• 2012: Protect retirees, but make changes for the future. (Mar 2019)
• 2012: Maybe raise age; 2019: Against raising age. (Mar 2019)
• 2012: raise retirement age; apply means-testing. (Mar 2019)
• Opposes personal retirement accounts. (Sep 2012)
• Rated 100% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance. (Jan 2013)

• MyRA: new savings bond for retirement. (Jan 2014)
• No new promises we can’t keep; but keep promises we’ve made. (Feb 2013)
• Entitlements don’t make us takers; they free us to take risk. (Jan 2013)
• Tweak Social Security like Reagan did, but keep entitlements. (Oct 2012)
• OpEd: Eliminating FICA ceiling means rich won’t spend. (Apr 2010)
• Good health care and tax reform will save entitlements. (Oct 2008)
• 2007: Raise income cap to avoid future shortfall. (Aug 2008)
• What do we do with the losers of privatizing? (Jul 2008)
• Raise cap on payroll tax for 3% of earners over $102,000. (Apr 2008)
• Raise $97K cap on payroll tax exempting earnings under $250K. (Apr 2008)
• Must capture new revenue; no new Social Security Commission. (Apr 2008)
• Stop any efforts to privatize Social Security. (Feb 2008)
• FactCheck: Removing $97,500 cap would be $1.3T tax increase. (Nov 2007)
• Cutting benefits & raising retirement age are wrong answers. (Nov 2007)
• The wealthy should pay a bit more on the payroll tax. (Oct 2007)
• Privatization puts retirement at whim of stock market. (Sep 2007)
• Stop any efforts to privatize Social Security. (Aug 2007)
• No privatization; but consider earning cap over $97,500. (Jul 2007)
• Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security. (Oct 2006)
• Raise the cap on the payroll tax on wealthy individuals. (Jan 2006)
• $2000 tax credit for Working Families Savings Accounts. (Jul 2004)
• Voted NO on establishing reserve funds & pre-funding for Social Security. (Mar 2007)

• We’re going to meet our obligations to our seniors. (Oct 2016)
• We will keep promises to seniors. (Oct 2016)
• Personal investment for Social Security retirement. (Jul 2016)
• Cutting Social Security should be on the table. (Apr 2014)
• Social Security is a covenant but needs commonsense reforms. (Jan 2012)
• Reform Social Security to ensure its solvency. (Sep 2010)
• Down-the-road raising of the Social Security retirement age. (Aug 2010)
• Voted YES on raising 401(k) limits & making pension plans more portable. (May 2001)
• Rated 22% by the ARA, indicating an anti-senior voting record. (Dec 2003)

• Incremental adjustments ok, but no Social Security cuts. (Mar 2020)
• Apply payroll-tax to income over $250,000. (Jul 2019)
• 2013: Expand benefits and create $2.8 trillion surplus. (Jul 2019)
• 2000: Fought IBM pension cuts; workers regained $320M. (Jul 2019)
• I helped create the Social Security Caucus. (Nov 2016)
• We have to do better on both SSDI and elder poverty. (Nov 2016)
• Lift cap on wealthy: at $250,000 program lasts 58 years. (Feb 2016)
• Criminal to not have COLA increases for seniors. (Oct 2015)
• Defend against chained CPI, and expand Social Security. (Oct 2015)
• No cuts; no privatization; even to deal with deficit. (Sep 2015)
• Raise the Social Security cap on taxable income. (Aug 2015)
• Strengthen the social safety net, instead of weakening it. (Mar 2015)
• We must strengthen the social safety net, not weaken it. (Jan 2015)
• Chairman of the Defend Social Security Caucus. (Jun 2012)
• Payroll tax holiday diverts revenue from Trust Fund. (Dec 2010)
• Most successful Federal program in history of our country. (Dec 2010)
• Despite GOP rhetoric, Social Security is NOT going bankrupt. (Sep 2006)
• It’s regressive to increase taxable Social Security income. (Jun 1997)
• Voted NO on establishing reserve funds & pre-funding for Social Security. (Mar 2007)
• Voted NO on raising 401(k) limits & making pension plans more portable. (May 2001)
• Voted NO on reducing tax payments on Social Security benefits. (Jul 2000)
• Voted YES on strengthening the Social Security Lockbox. (May 1999)
• Changing Social Security disproportionately affects women. (May 2001)
• Reject proposals for private saving accounts. (May 2002)
• Rated 100% by the ARA, indicating a pro-senior voting record. (Dec 2003)
• Reject privatization; don’t raise the retirement age. (Aug 2010)
• Sponsored keeping CPI for benefits instead of lower “Chained CPI”. (Apr 2013)
• Rated 100% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance. (Jan 2013)

• Off-budget accounting undermines trust in government. (Nov 2000)
• Voted NO on reducing tax payments on Social Security benefits. (Jul 2000)
• Voted NO on strengthening the Social Security Lockbox. (May 1999)
• Sponsored bill for personal retirement accounts in Soc.Sec. (Jul 2000)
• Rated 0% by ARA, indicating a pro-privatization stance. (Jan 2013)
• Reduce taxes on Social Security earnings. (Sep 1994)

No stance on record.

• Great countries don’t break their major promises. (Jan 2020)

• Never cut Social Security; payroll tax cut won’t affect it. (Sep 2020)
• Improve SSI youth transition to self-sufficient work. (Sep 2020)
• Going “full-steam ahead” on limiting disability benefits. (Mar 2020)
• FactCheck: Yes, “privatization would be good for all of us”. (Oct 2016)
• I will save Social Security with more jobs, less waste. (Feb 2016)
• I’ll give up my Social Security; leave it to each person. (Sep 2015)
• Cannot change Medicare or Soc.Sec. and still win elections. (Mar 2013)
• Social Security isn’t an “entitlement”; it’s honoring a deal. (Dec 2011)
• Disability Racket: $25B in fraudulent disability filings. (Dec 2011)
• Pay off debt; put $3T interest savings into Trust Fund. (Jul 2000)
• Let people invest their own retirement funds. (Jul 2000)
• No government investment of retirement funds. (Jul 2000)

• Maintain long-term solvency of Social Security and Medicare. (Aug 2001)

• Supports privatizing Social Security. (Mar 2018)
• Wants to shut down the Social Security system. (Dec 2017)

• Gradually raising the retirement age beyond 67. (Nov 2010)
• Individuals set aside portion of own income for retirement. (Feb 2010)

• Create a payment floor; credits for caretaking. (May 2021)
• Create a payment floor & credits for caretaking. (May 2021)
• Add $200 per month to everyone on Social Security. (Oct 2019)
• System can be fixed if we have political will. (Apr 2019)
• Retirement benefits are about our values, not about math. (Nov 2014)
• Social Security & Medicare allow seniors dignity. (Sep 2012)
• No unnecessary cuts or risky privatization schemes. (Jul 2012)
• Modest changes will save Social Security, not privatization. (Apr 2012)
• One in eight older Americans lives in poverty. (Jan 2006)
• Opposes investing part of your payroll tax. (Oct 2012)
• Sponsored keeping CPI for benefits instead of lower “Chained CPI”. (Apr 2013)
• Rated 100% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance. (Jan 2013)

• Will not abolish social security and receives it himself. (May 2016)
• Just started receiving Social Security and likes it. (May 2016)

No stance on record.

• Raise cap on income & we can avoid privatization. (Apr 2019)

• Universal Basic Income recipients might lose other benefits. (Apr 2019)
• Disability creates a permanent shadow class of beneficiaries. (Apr 2019)
• Disability creates a permanent shadow class of beneficiaries. (Apr 2019)
• Optional automatic tax-free retirement investment vehicle. (Mar 2019)
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