Here, a century and a half ago, our nation was born. Here was adopted the declaration of independence, which proclaimed our freedom. All men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The constitution of the United States guarantees our freedom, which determines neither king nor dictator, but only we the people shall rule. music dr. Franklin, you have just come from the Constitutional Convention. What have we got, a republic or a monarchy . A republic, if you can keep it so. A prophetic statement from Benjamin Franklin is the Constitutional Convention ended its labors in september 1787. A republic, if you can keep it so. It was here in philadelphia the George Washington penned his immortal farewell address, and which he established the Great American tradition unbroken for 145 years and our safeguard against dictatorship and tyranny, that no president should serve for a third term. mu
Narrator here, a century and a half ago, our nation was born. Here was adopted the declaration of independence, which proclaimed our freedom. All men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. These are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Narrator the constitution of the United States guarantees our freedom, determines neither king nor dictator, but only we the people shall rule. Franklin, you have just come from the Constitutional Convention. What have we got, a republic or a monarchy . If you can keep it so. Narrator a prophetic statement from Benjamin Franklin is the Constitutional Convention ended in september 1787. A republic, if you can keep it so. It was here in philadelphia the George Washington penned his immortal farewell address, and which he established the Great American tradition unbroken for 145 years and our safeguard against dictatorship and tyranny, that no president should serve for a third term. Citizens, and fellow
industrialized countries pretty. watch afterwards on sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on the tv. on c-span2 . next, social security administration officials testify in efforts to protect seniors from social security impersonation scams. witnesses look at what organizations are doing to combat these scams, and figure from utah resident was a recent victim. held by the agent committee, this is two hours. senate ag commission. says two hours. the meeting will come to order. good morning. today the special committee on the aging is releasing its updated 2020 book. it lists the top ten scams that have been reported to our committee over the past year. the good news is that the notorious irs impersonation scam, which had been the top scam reported to the committee for five consecutive years, has fallen off dramatically. he used to be number one and now it is number seven. still a problem, but public awareness has certainly helped to decrease the prevalence of that scam. unfortu
senate aging committee. the committee will come to order. good morning. today, the special committee on aging is releasing its updated 2020 fraud book. it lists the top ten scams that have been reported to our committee over the past year. the good news is that the notorious irs impersonation scam, which had been the top scam reported to the committee for five consecutive years, has fallen off dramatically.p it used to be number one, now it s number seven. still a problem, but public awareness has certainly helped to decrease the prevalence of that scam. unfortunately, the social security impersonation scam, the topic of this morning s hearing, has risen to take its place. reports of the ssa scam barely registered as recently as 2017, but then it began to take off, cracking the top ten scans reported to our committee s fraud hotline in 2018 and becoming the number one reported scam last year as shown on the chart displayed on the monitors. this scam has resulted in $38 mi