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Dick Durbin: “We would say you can offer an amendment, if you wish, to…”

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 07:15

But to do that, we have to do something we haven't done in a long time. Get ready, buckle your seat belts. I'm talking about legislating, actually bringing a measure to the floor and opening it to amendment. We would say you can offer an amendment, if you wish, to anyone's proposal for Social Security, but whatever you do has to buy a minimum of 50 years solvency for Social Security and then let's vote. There'll be some ideas that will be crazy and you wouldn't even consider them. But I think we could work to a bipartisan solution to our challenge as well. (07:15–07:29)

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Asserts that any amendment to Social Security proposals must ensure 50 years of solvency.

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