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The New York Times
By ROBIN TONER and ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: April 30, 2005
WASHINGTON, April 29 - House Republican leaders announced on Friday that they hoped to draft Social Security legislation by June, trying to demonstrate new energy behind President Bush's long-stalled initiative. Mr. Bush, a day after embracing a plan to restore the pension program's solvency by curtailing promised benefits for most future retirees, declared, "I'm confident we're going to get something done."
Mr. Bush ended his 60-day campaign to highlight the financial problems in Social Security with the public still skeptical about his approach, but he said he was confident the mood would shift: "The more they understand the nature of the problem, the more they're going to be saying to those of us who are serving, 'Go get it fixed.' "
But Mr. Bush's latest Social Security proposal, unveiled in a prime-time news conference on Thursday night, brought a firestorm of new criticism. Democrats asserted it would amount to deep cuts in benefits for most retirees and transform Social Security from a broad middle-class entitlement to a program aimed at the poor. AARP, the powerful lobby for older Americans, also dismissed the latest Bush proposal, with John C. Rother, policy director for the group, describing it as "an unnecessary and unfair benefit cut for the middle class."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/30/politics/30social.html