2012 Del. Senate Debate: on Social Security


Alex Pires: Attack plans to privatize Social Security

Pires attempted to attack Carper on Social Security, accusing the senator of supporting a plan to privatize the government program by putting Americans' retirement funds in private accounts. He called Carper a "proponent of privatization," reading quotes from 2005 that appeared to reflect Carper's support for the move.

Carper said he only supported private accounts as an add-on to the traditional Social Security program. Carper added that he opposed a full privatization measure proposed by President George W. Bush in 2005. In fact, he and other lawmakers sent a letter to then-President Bush on March 3 of that year calling on the Republican to "publicly and unambiguously announce that you reject privatized accounts funded with Social Security dollars."

Source: Delmarva Daily Times on 2012 Del. Senate debate Oct 17, 2012

Tom Carper: Private accounts as an add-on, not full privatization

Pires attempted to attack Carper on Social Security, accusing the senator of supporting a plan to privatize the government program by putting Americans' retirement funds in private accounts. He called Carper a "proponent of privatization," reading quotes from 2005 that appeared to reflect Carper's support for the move.

Carper said he only supported private accounts as an add-on to the traditional Social Security program. Carper added that he opposed a full privatization measure proposed by President George W. Bush in 2005. In fact, he and other lawmakers sent a letter to then-President Bush on March 3 of that year calling on the Republican to "publicly and unambiguously announce that you reject privatized accounts funded with Social Security dollars."

Source: Delmarva Daily Times on 2012 Del. Senate debate Oct 17, 2012

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Candidates and political leaders on Social Security:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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