Bush to tackle Social Security issues
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The nation&#39;s economy is growing, President Bush told attendees on the second day of a White House economic conference, but work remains to be done on Social Security, the deficit and what the president called &quot;fiscal restraint.
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RALEIGH, N.C.  - President Bush, determined to  build support for overhauling Social Security, sought on  Thursday to assure members of Congress that they would not be  hurt politically for supporting his proposal.
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Fresh from a five-state tour promoting his plan to add private accounts to Social Security, President Bush pledged on Saturday to go beyond that proposal and push for an overhaul to make the retirement system permanently solvent.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - President Bush on Thursday said modifying the Social Security system to allow younger workers to put some of their payroll taxes into private accounts will shore up the key entitlement program.
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President Bush is ready to challenge Congress to approve a stack of politically divisive measures he has proposed before without success, from major changes in Social Security to a loosening of the nation's immigration laws.
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A decade after President Bill  Clinton's ambitious scheme to overhaul U.S. health care turned  into a political debacle, some are wondering whether President  Bush's Social Security plan could go the same way.
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President Bush promised to listen to  "any good idea" for fixing Social Security on Saturday as he  sought to coax reluctant lawmakers into joining his effort to  overhaul the retirement program.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - Facing record budget deficits,  the Bush administration likely will turn to short-term  government borrowing to help finance its plan to add personal  retirement accounts to Social Security, officials said on  Saturday.
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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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President Bush is poised to pursue an aggressive &quot;ownership society&quot; agenda of Social Security privatization, new tax breaks for savings and investment and additional incentives
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President Bush acknowledged the dicey politics of Social Security as he urged Congress to approve his plan to add personal accounts to the system. With the system in financial straits, he said, any political price is worth paying.
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BLUE BELL, Pa.  - President Bush, determined to  build support for overhauling Social Security, sought on  Thursday to assure members of Congress that they would not be  hurt politically for supporting his plan.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush, in his the final budget, will propose a $3 trillion plan that would freeze or cut Medicare and other domestic programs and will touch off election-year battles with Congress.
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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 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 emphasized today during his last press conference of the year that he wants Social Security reform efforts to protect the benefits of older Americans.
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President George W. Bush said Social Security is headed for bankruptcy and pressed his plan for private retirement accounts as a coalition representing labor, women, blacks, seniors and the disabled challenged his proposal.