Issue Position: Ensuring Retirement Security

Issue Position

Your retirement nest egg faces many threats. I am working to ensure seniors can enjoy a safe and healthy retirement that they worked a lifetime to earn. AARP honored me recently with its Champion Legislative Leadership Award for my efforts to strengthen seniors' access to healthcare.

In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and bank failures, President Franklin Roosevelt actually understood how to "Make American Great Again." It wasn't through stirring hate or fear mongering; he didn't settle for the "every person for him or herself" approach. Instead, he established that pillar of retirement safety, Social Security. In more than eight decades, Social Security has never been a day late or a dollar short.

Despite these benefits, the drive to dismantle Social Security remains a real threat. Some see privatization as an option, a tantalizing prize for a host of Wall Street financial interests. But privatizing will only reduce solvency and endanger benefits for millions of current beneficiaries.

My longstanding efforts to remove Social Security numbers from Medicare cards were finally successful. The Medicare Identity Theft Prevention Act will ensure more seniors are protected from identity theft.

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