Bush, Democrats Spar Over Social Security
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Facing an intensifying fight over  his plan to revamp Social Security, President Bush insisted on  Saturday that the retirement program was in peril and he had a  moral responsibility to fix it.
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President Bush stuck to generalities in his State of the Union message, but the White House this week provided some details of its plan to set up private accounts in the Social Security system. The administration didn't lay out a complete road map. It remains unclear, for example, how much traditional benefits will have to be cut or how the ...
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Senate Democrats on Friday criticized President Bush's plan to add personal accounts to Social Security and accused his administration of improperly using the Social Security Administration to promote the idea.
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Congressional Democrats hit President Bush on Wednesday for his Iraq policies and planned Social Security overhaul, hoping a vigorous response to his State of the Union speech will fuel a turnabout from their election setbacks last fall.
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The administration defended President Bushâs low-tax philosophy and Democrats said the president was saddling American children with debt.
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Social Security has drifted out of the national debate, but Democrats, eyeing the senior vote, are trying to revive the issue &#151; just in time for the midterm elections.
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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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Senate Republicans equipped their rank and file on Tuesday with campaign-style material on Social Security that touts President Bush's call for voluntary personal accounts for younger workers but omits mention of companion cuts in guaranteed future benefits.
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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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President Bush said Saturday that Social Security "is on the road to bankruptcy" and will be unable to pay promised benefits to future generations, raising the stakes in a major political battle with Democrats.
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President Bush on Wednesday urged  jittery Republicans in the U.S. Congress to back his overhaul  of Social Security, saying partially privatizing the retirement  system was worth the political price.
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The top two Democrats in the U.S. Congress vowed on Wednesday to work with President Bush when possible, but ripped into him on two central issues -- Iraq and his bid to revamp the Social Security retirement program.
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Democrats vowed on Saturday to protect the Social Security retirement program from &quot;privatization&quot; by US President George W. Bush and his Republican allies, who expanded their congressional majorities in elections this week.
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The Bush administration came out today in opposition to Democratic proposals to hold down the scheduled 17 percent increase in Medicare premiums next year, saying that
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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 Bush chided Sen. John Kerry and fellow Democrats on Monday for asserting that Republicans will undermine Social Security, calling the strategy "the most tired, pathetic way to campaign for the presidency."
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President Bush questioned Sen. John Kerry's fitness to lead and the Democrat said Bush had ignored the middle class as they took their close presidential race on Saturday to two crucial states.