2016 PA Senate race: on Social Security

Joe Sestak: Never supported policy to cut Social Security or Medicare

Joe Sestak: Never raise, never, the age for our seniors to retire

McGinty has cited Sestak's praise for the 2010 Simpson-Bowles plan's broad deficit-reduction blueprint, an outline that includes cuts to Social Security, to go after him on that issue.

Sestak did not let that stand. "Katie, you're wrong--here's why--you should remember, as I do as a Catholic, the Eighth Commandment," he said, citing the order to not bear false witness against a neighbor. He said he has publicly advocated that "we should never raise, never, the age for our seniors to retire." Sestak also said he voted 41 times as a congressman to protect Social Security and Medicare.

Republicans pointed out that McGinty's campaign chairman, former Gov. Ed Rendell, has often praised the courage of lawmakers who have embraced the deficit reduction plan she is now criticizing.

Katie McGinty: Cuts to Social Security are wrong for working families

Sestak did not let that stand. "Katie, you're wrong," noting that he voted 41 times as a congressman to protect Social Security and Medicare.

Republicans pointed out that McGinty's campaign chairman, former Gov. Ed Rendell, has often praised the courage of lawmakers who have embraced the deficit reduction plan she is now criticizing.