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finances. so plenty to get to. we begin with explosive remarks today during a heated hearing on anti-asian hate crimes, two days after that deadly shooting in atlanta amidst a rising wave of anti-asian attacks that have been documented. it was the first hearing in roughly 30 years. that s the context for the republican s remarks. he said he wants justice for the victims in atlanta. he worries about policing free speech and invoked lynching, which broke a fiery rebuke from the democrat testifying. i think there is old sayings in texas about find the rope in texas and get a taller tree. my concern about this hearing is it seems to want to venture into the policing of rhetoric. your president and your party and your colleagues can talk about issues with any other country that you want. but you don t have to do it by putting a bulls eye on the back of asian-americans across the country, on our grandparents, on our kids. this hearing was to address the hurt and pain of o ....
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And it is, i think, still a tough haul. senator bradley, we ve been talking about this. you say you can do it. i just wonder if, you know, this age of baby boomers retiring is any different from the last age of people retiring. that s the basic rap. you can t do anything. just my reflection, in the early 80s, social security was going to go bankrupt. i would conduct town meetings, 400, 500 people, majority seniors. i would have a professor from the university lay out the options and we would discuss it. seniors would say, well, i don t want my children to pay more taxes. maybe i ll cut a little bit of my benefit. someone else would say, i would work a little longer. you ended up with a proposal i felt quite comfortable with when it came from the commission, because i d already done the ....
Senator bradley, we ve been talking about this. you say you can do it. i wonder if this age of baby boomers retiring is different from the last age of people retiring? that s the basic rap you can t do anything. my reflection in the early 80s, social security was going to go bankrupt. i would conduct town meetings, 400, 500 people, majority seniors. i would have a professor from the university lay out the options and we would discuss it. seniors would say, well, i don t want my children to pay more taxes. maybe i ll cut a little bit of my benefit. someone else would say, i would work longer. you ended up with a proposal i felt comfortable with because i d already done the work with my constituents and realize they could buy a retirement age increasing from 65 to 67, which ....