July 26, 2006 - SUCCESSFUL MARKEY BILL TO PROTECT PRIVACY AMERICANS' SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS COULD PREVENT FUTURE IDENTITY THEFT, STALKING, CRIME
Washington, DC -- Today, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and chair of the Privacy Caucus, announced the committee’s passage of a provision to protecting Americans’ Social Security numbers. This bipartisan bill would bring a halt to unregulated commerce in Social Security numbers, and would make it crime for a person to sell or purchase Social Security numbers in violation of rules put forth by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC would be given the power to restrict the sale of Social Security numbers, determine appropriate exemptions, and to enforce civil compliance with the bill’s restrictions. Markey welcomed the support of Republican Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Joe Barton, in passing the amendment to H.R. 1078, the Social Security Number Protection Act.
May 9, 2005- Markey Decries Largest Social Security Benefit Cut for Middle Class in History
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey today called for President Bush to tell the truth about his risky and misleading proposal to privatize Social Security and the impact it will have on middle class families. Rep. Markey released new data revealing that roughly 750,000 of the one million middle class families receiving social security in Massachusetts could be hit by the proposal endorsed by President Bush last month if it took effect today.
February 18, 2005- Social Security: Is the System Really in Crisis?
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MEDFORD, MA – U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) announced today that he will hold a town meeting on Social Security reform on Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 7 PM at The National Heritage Museum, 33 Marrett Road, Lexington, MA.
January 24, 2005- Introductory Remarks of Ed Markey at Forum on Social Security, Jack Satter House, Revere, Mass., Jan. 24, 2005
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Today, with the help of two experts on the subject, we will discuss the President’s plan to phase out the guaranteed minimum Social Security benefit that American workers expect and rely upon.
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt began Social Security, he designed it to endure, and he did an excellent job. Social Security is the nation's retirement plan, and the only plan for the majority of workers with no pension. But it's much more than a pension plan.
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