Grassley making the case to fix Social Security

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Grassley making the case to fix Social Security

By Mike Glover
ASSOCIATED PRESS

March 27, 2005

BEDFORD, Iowa – Assigned to put President Bush's Social Security ideas into a bill that can pass Congress, Sen. Charles Grassley is finding little clamor for it among the people who have kept him in the Senate for 25 years.

"What I need to hear people say is, 'We expect you to fix this,' " Grassley said in between town hall-style meetings. "I'm not hearing that."

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At each of Grassley's stops, Social Security is high on a list of topics that also include trade, farm policy and education. The mixed message he is getting is not the one the White House wanted when a week earlier Bush urged lawmakers to meet with people in their states and districts, then return to Washington ready to start exchanging ideas for a Social Security bill.

House Republicans are skittish, telling the senators they should make the first move. That means whatever legislation is written will have to start with Grassley. He says he will convene his committee this summer to draft a bill.

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[MichiganVote]

1. Dream on Grassley

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. All the house and one third of the Senate

are looking at Social Security as something they DON'T want to touch right now.....

[rocktivity]

3. Maybe the reason why people aren't asking you to "fix" SS, Sen. Grassley,

is because they know it isn't broken! At least, it's not so broken that a lack of immediate reform causes an "imminent threat."

So you're scheduled to write up an SS bill this summer whether anyone wants it or not? THAT could be why you're not getting the message that the Bush White House "wanted." Too bad your boss has such a phobia about being disagreed with!

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