For seniors and people who are disabled or blind. Benefit levels were last updated in the 1980s. I call this meeting to order. Senator young, thank you, Ranking Member of the subcommittee, for working with us to schedule this hearing. I appreciate the professionalism and confidence of your staff and my Office Working with all of you is really helpful. Thank you to chairman whiting for being part of this, the efforts to protect and strengthen this critical part of our Social Security system. Todays hearing on supplemental security income, ssi, is long overdue. This is the first hearing in the finance committee since 1998, before i was in the senate, for sure. That would be almost a quarter of a century. Theres not been a hearing in congress specifically about increasing benefits and eligibility since the reagan administration. In fact, that 1987, the last year or so of the reagan administration, in 1987, ways and means hearing called ssi, quote, the forgotten safety net. It was a fittin
For seniors and people who are disabled or blind. Benefit levels were last updated in the 1980s. I call this meeting to order. Senator young, thank you, Ranking Member of the subcommittee, for working with us to schedule this hearing. I appreciate the professionalism and confidence of your staff and my Office Working with all of you is really helpful. Thank you to chairman whiting for being part of this, the efforts to protect and strengthen this critical part of our Social Security system. Todays hearing on supplemental security income, ssi, is long overdue. This is the first hearing in the finance committee since 1998, before i was in the senate, for sure. That would be almost a quarter of a century. Theres not been a hearing in congress specifically about increasing benefits and eligibility since the reagan administration. In fact, that 1987, the last year or so of the reagan administration, in 1987, ways and means hearing called ssi, quote, the forgotten safety net. It was a fittin
A mouse. And those appalling effects cannot justify the collective punishment of the policy. And people excellent sees even was as rules. We must be man, thats all parties. I pulled into respect that obligations under International Humanitarian law. The cost of getting that going back to the military operations, to specially villians and respects and protect hospitals and respect the environment ability of un facilities, which do they are sheltering more than 600000 palestinians. The un secretary general, who shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder of children, women, and the elderly, is not fit to lead the un. I call on him to resign immediately. There was no justification or points and talking to those who show compassion for the most terrible atrocities committed against the citizens of israel and the jewish people. There are simply no words. Its either a heated session, all of the you and both for insights presented the vision of the conflict prize. Stein said Internati
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