Congress Members Weigh In

The Courier-Journal

"Rep. Anne Northup, R-3rd District, said Bush's tour should continue, and it's time for Congress to get involved. Northup said that her sense from talking to people in Kentucky is that the time for action is 'ripe.'"

"Derrick Max, executive director of the Alliance for Worker Retirement Security... thinks a compromise can be struck. 'There is a lot of momentum for what Bush is talking about,' he said. 'Whether you like personal accounts or don't like personal accounts, whether you like more taxes or don't like taxes, whether you like benefit cuts or don't like benefit cuts—you've got to come to the table and deal with it.'"
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Social Security News Briefing

Congress Daily AM

The "Coalition for the Modernization and Protection of America's Social Security hopes to use Congress' return this week to renew its lobbying and public relations push to revamp Social Security with personal accounts. In a memo dated today, the coalition cited likely consideration this month by House and Senate committees of overhaul proposals as evidence the issue has not stalled.

'While not a full shout, more and more whispers from the media, congressional members, staff and other policy experts can be heard that suggest a bill will emerge this session,' the memo stated."
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From The Field

Montana

Generations Together members staff a booth at a bucking-horse sales event in Miles City.

Kentucky

In anticipation of President Bush's visit to Hopkinsville, Generations Together supporters gather to promote Social Security reform.

Business Community Leaders Speak with One Voice on the Need to Fix Social Security in the Charlotte Observer and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

"As the economic recovery steams forward, the last thing we can afford is a Social Security crisis that develops because our government leaders lack the will to tackle the problem before it gets worse.

"That's why we — and the thousands of employers we represent — believe so strongly that Social Security must be reformed now. There's simply too much at stake for businesses, for retirees and for today's workers, who deserve assurances of a secure retirement."
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Did You Know?

There's no guarantee that workers will receive any Social Security benefits when they retire. In Fleming v. Nestor, the Supreme Court ruled that taxpayers have no legal right to retirement benefits.

They Said It

"Having worked for the last nine years trying to find a bipartisan solution to the challenges facing Social Security, I was very encouraged when President Bush put his political capital on the line to make Social Security reform the top domestic priority of his administration... By proposing restraints on the growth of benefits for wealthier retirees to close much of the funding gap and expressing his willingness to work with Congress on additional changes, President Bush acknowledged that there is no free lunch in Social Security reform."

Former Democratic Rep.
Charlie Stenholm
May 29th