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Slaughter asks
freer SSA
Congressman D. French Slaughter, Jr. has supported legislation to establish the Social Security Administration as an independent agency. It would also prohibit the U.S. Treasury from disinvesting the Social Security trust funds to circumvent the debt limit.
This legislation, H.R. 5050, creates a bipartisan, three-member Social Security Board to govern the agency. The board would have broad legislative, regulatory, and administrative authority and would generally serve as the policy-making arm of the agency.
H.R. 5050 would also specifically prohibit the Treasury from tapping into the long-term assets of the Social Security trust funds to keep the government running when the debt limit has been reached. This bill will provide that the disinvestment of the trust funds that took place last year will not be repeated.
The Congressman voted against the Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy, Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation
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