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I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Believe
Mean
Retirement
Social Security
Tested
Believe Security I Believe
Guarantee
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For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Reason
Rely
Retirement
Social
Social Security
Women Men Security
Reasons
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I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Never Quit
Quitting
Trying
Up To Date
Washington
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Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Borders
Disrespected
Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants
Immigration
Immigration Laws
Law
Businesses
Cross
Hire
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As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
America
Poverty
Rate
Senior
Would Be
Benefit
Current
Result
Seniors
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Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Borders
Immigrants
Currently
Nearly
Million People
Shadows
Undocumented
Whom
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After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
New York
Availability
Metropolitan
Saws
Terrorism
Businesses
District
Firsthand
Insurance
Result
Throughout
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I make my decisions and my judgments not based on what a prime minister of another country says, but based on what my principles tell me... how may DNA guides me.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Country
Decision
Dna
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Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Burden
Children
Cost
Dollars
Plus
Support
Owned
Passes
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You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Impact
People
Reform
Social Security
Always People Will
Consider
Disabilities
People Will Always
Offered
Proposals
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I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Bipartisan
Discussion
Generations
Protect
Social Security
Best Future Believe
Future Generations
Preserve
Seniors
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I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Christmas
Smile
Government
Frustration
Light
Red
Santa
Santa Claus
Secular
Symbols
Attempts
Ban
Lights
Nose
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The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Cells
Embryonic Stem Cells
Enhancement
Lines
Numbers
Research
Stem
Stem Cell
Stem Cell Research
Would Be
Cell
Cell Research
Eligible
Embryonic
Expand
Number
Increasing
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Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
American Workers
Economic Security
Poverty
President
Senior
Social Security
Workers
Established
Declined
Dramatically
Ensure
Roosevelt
Seniors
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Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Men
Gaps
Pay Gap
Significant
Workforce
Time Men Women
Compounding
Earn
Exists
Time Women Men
Gap
Less Time
Lifetimes
Tend
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Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Argument
Congress
Vote
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The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Agree
Benefits
Disagree
Needs
President
Retirement
Social Security
All Americans
Ensure
Preserved
Promised
Receive
Retirement Benefits
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As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Finance
Benefits
Generations
Security
Social Security
Today
Workers
Functions
Generation
Paying
Premise
Retirees
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It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Jobs
Cutting
Drawbacks
Labor
Manual Labor
Proposal
Retirement
Retirement Age
Work Men Women
Work Women Age
Physically
Estimated
Manual
Raising
Require
Women And Men
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