Bush Acknowledges Tough Fight on Social Security
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GREAT FALLS, Mont.  - President Bush warned on  Thursday that retirement benefits for younger workers were at  risk and conceded he faced a battle in Congress to win over  skeptics of his plan to remake the 70-year-old Social Security  system.
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President Bush tried to increase pressure on members of Congress who are leery of his ideas to change Social Security by telling them Tuesday they could be risking their jobs.
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US President George W Bush says the nation's social security fund is close to bankruptcy.
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President Bush on Thursday flatly ruled out raising payroll taxes to ensure the solvency of Social Security, as he opened a push for historic changes in the retirement program.
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US President George W. Bush said on Thursday that overhauling the US Social Security system would be a top priority in his second term and &quot;now is the time toconfront Social Security.
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President Bush says Social Security's future financial shortfall is a crisis that Congress must tackle now, repeating Monday his demand for action but refusing to provide details of his top domestic priority that will cost trillions of dollars to implement.
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FARGO, N.D.  - President Bush warned on Thursday  that retirement benefits for younger workers were at risk as he  brought his campaign to revamp Social Security to the American  heartland and sought the public's help in winning over  skeptical members of Congress.
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In State of the Union address, President Bush faces a steep challenge in persuading a skeptical public to follow his lead in his final year in office.
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President Bush proposed the biggest  overhaul of Social Security since its 1935 creation on  Wednesday night in his State of the Union speech, and for the  first time said he would consider limiting future retirement  benefits as part of a solution.
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President Bush, on a trip to pitch his Social Security plans, tried on Thursday to calm restive Republicans who fear the political consequences of supporting his idea for personal retirement accounts.
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President Bush on Tuesday called on  Congress to back the "difficult choices" included in his 2006  budget that contains deep domestic cuts and already has some  lawmakers uneasy about the political fallout.
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Stepping up his push to overhaul Social Security by creating private investment accounts, President Bush is dispatching his top officials to help him convince the public and lawmakers that the nation's retirement system needs fixing now.
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President Bush is barnstorming the country, trying to convince the public that Social Security needs an urgent overhaul and offering a solution even the White House acknowledges won't fix the retirement system's future financial problems.
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President Bush says the key to getting Social Security overhaul through Congress is to convince a majority there is a long-term problem and making sure opponents don't frighten seniors into believing their checks are going to be cut.
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President Bush will use a two-day  economic conference this week to try to build support for a  planned overhaul of Social Security his critics say could put  the retirement system at risk.
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Contending Americans have embraced his conservative agenda, President Bush pledged Thursday to aggressively pursue major changes in Social Security, the tax code and medical malpractice awards, working with Democrats if they are receptive and leaving them behind if they're not.
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Today proved to be the toughest fought presidential campaigns in the history of the United States. However, Bush still needs to wait for the final resolution of voting dispute before being reelected.