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The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.
Jack Lew
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There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'
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The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.
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I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.
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It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.
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I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
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Most Americans want health insurance.
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If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
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Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.
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Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
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Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.
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If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.
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