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2015-2016

Chairman Enzi: Modernize Disability Insurance to avoid program insolvency

U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, spoke this morning about the looming insolvency of the Social Security Disability Trust Fund. In his opening statement before the Senate Budget Committee, Enzi highlighted the need to modernize the Disability Insurance program in order to fiscally secure its long-term future for the nation. […]

Don’t Use A Manufactured Crisis to Cut Social Security Disability

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said today that Congress should reallocate funds into the Social Security disability fund to prevent a manufactured crisis jeopardizing income for the most vulnerable. Sanders spoke at a Senate Budget Committee hearing to discuss the program. His remarks as […]

Sanders Says Rise In Inequality Jeopardizes Social Security

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, today headlined an important briefing about wage inequality and its impact on Social Security. The event, hosted by the Strengthen Social Security Coalition, provided a venue for the release of a new report on the issue and a conversation […]

Sanders Issues New Report Documenting Republican Effort to Cut Social Security

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said that he would fight Republican attempts to cut Social Security and today issued a report detailing the importance of Social Security and how attempts to cut it are unnecessary. “Republicans are manufacturing a phony crisis in Social Security […]

Sanders Raps TV Outlets For Failure To Cover Secret Trade Deals

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today made the case against a proposed 12-nation trade deal that he said would be a “disaster” for American workers but good for multi-national corporations wanting to ship more jobs to low-wage nations in Asia. Sanders also criticized major national news organizations for ignoring how trade […]

Ahead of Hearing on Social Security Disability, Sanders warns against cuts

Republicans Want to Cut Social Security Disability Benefits, Sanders Warns WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, today warned in a Senate floor speech that “Republicans are manufacturing a crisis where none exists” in their effort to cut Social Security disability benefits. In the budget blueprint […]

Budget chairmen, Portman, call for accounting of spending changes made each Congress

Every year, Congress and the president enact dozens of laws increasing or decreasing spending on various entitlement spending programs. However, there has never been a single document listing the final cost of each new law. To get an honest accounting of these costs, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, […]

Chairman Enzi: Confront spending, make tough decisions

U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, spoke this morning on how the president’s FY2016 budget proposal lacks needed fiscal reforms and only accelerates the nation’s plunge towards higher interest payments and more debt. In his opening statement before the Senate Budget Committee, Enzi also highlighted how we need to be […]