Social Security Tops GOP Agenda for 2005
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Senate Republicans say the revamping of Social Security is their top legislative goal of 2005, with further tax cuts, energy independence and lawsuit limits listed as other issues that will get their attention in the coming months.
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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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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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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.  - Rising pressure on U.S.  finances from an aging population make it vital quickly fix the  social safety net with such steps as raising the age for full  retirement benefits, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan  said on Friday.
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All the tactics of a political campaign &#151; TV ads, grass-roots organizing, town hall meetings and polling &#151; are being tapped to influence opinion and pressure lawmakers in the explosive debate on Social Security.
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As President Bush begins a big  campaign to restructure Social Security, Democrats and a host  of interest groups are mobilizing to fight his private account  plan and protect the traditional retirement system.
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Third in a series of occasional articles examining the economic and political stakes involved in the Bush administration's proposed overhaul of Social Security.
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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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TROY, Ohio Aug. 28, 2004 - President Bush plans to offer specific policy proposals on Social Security and other issues during his speech at the Republican National Convention, a top adviser said Saturday.
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President Bush's plan to overhaul Social Security may be a centerpiece of his domestic agenda, but the subject appeared to be turn-off for television viewers, Nielsen Media Research said on Thursday.
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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 on Thursday ruled out raising taxes to finance the centerpiece of his second-term domestic agenda: a Social Security overhaul to help the system survive an impending wave of retiring baby boomers.
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The Bush administration stepped up its attempt to build support for restructuring Social Security yesterday, saying in a Treasury Department report what it has said elsewhere: that the popular program will require either tax increases or cuts in benefits to remain viable in its current form.
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President Bush made a fresh push Saturday for a new Social Security plan in which Americans would be allowed to channel a small portion of their income into "personal savings accounts," warning that inaction could end the retirement system.
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If President Bush wants to push his plan to overhaul Social Security through Congress during his second term, he will probably have to do something he rarely did during his first term: get his hands dirty.
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The cost of living adjustment intended to help more than 47 million Social Security recipients keep up with inflation is expected to be a tad larger in 2005 than it was this year, but the bad news is that much of the increase will be eaten up by higher Medicare premiums.
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President George W. Bush, facing pressure to trim a record US budget deficit, will combine a push to restructure Social Security with a call for spending discipline as he wraps up a two-day economic summit.