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Sens. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) and Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) today unveiled a blueprint forfixing the ultimate political sacred cow, Social Security, before the system becomes insolvent in 2030. On the list: raising the retirement age, curbing cost of living increases and allowing workers to invest some of their own...
Three-term Alabama Sen. Howell Heflin said he would not seek re-election next year, bringing to four the number of Senate Democrats who plan to retire. In a speech on the Senate floor, the 73-year-old former chief justice of the Alabama supreme court, who has suffered from...
Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, spent the day downplaying reports that he said four more Senate Democrats will retire next year, leaving a threatening seven seats open toGOP challengesin 1996. In Thursday's editions of the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, Kerrey was quoted...
NO KERREY FAVOR: A federal deficit-cutting commission today refused to endorse a controversial plan by its co-chairmen, Sens. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), and John Danforth (R-Mo.), to avert a long-term federal budget crisis by privatizing Social Security. Instead, the 32-member Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and...
The letter notes how often each incumbent voted to bust a filibuster in the last two years. The perfect scorers were all Democrats. The bottom three, all in the GOP minority, were Wyoming Sens. Alan Simpson and Malcolm Wallop and North Carolina's Jesse Helms.