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Dick Durbin: “We need to come together on a bipartisan basis and agree on…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Calls On Congress To Act To Save Social Security

Published | Video Starts at 06:50

Junior senator from Rhode island, the same senior senator from Hawaii, equally senior senator from Louisiana, working on one as well. Good ideas are out there, but We need to come together on a bipartisan basis and agree on a path that buys 50 years of solvency at a minimum. Those senators have worked on their proposals for a long time. They want to present them to the Senate, and they should. (06:50–06:58)

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Asserts the need for a bipartisan agreement to ensure 50 years of Social Security solvency.

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