PRINTER'S NO. 1529
No. 72 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, ALLEN, STABACK, LYNCH, NYCE, BAKER,
ULIANA, FAIRCHILD, NAILOR, BROWN, GORDNER, HENNESSEY, GANNON,
STERN, PISTELLA, LAUB, RAYMOND, MILLER, SATHER, BUNT, PLATTS,
L. I. COHEN, BELARDI, OLASZ, KING, TRELLO, DRUCE, MARSICO,
CAWLEY, LAUGHLIN AND BEBKO-JONES, APRIL 21, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS, APRIL 21, 1993
A RESOLUTION
1 Memorializing the President and the United States Congress to
2 oppose placing limits on cost-of-living increases for Social
3 Security recipients for the purpose of reducing the Federal
4 deficit.
5 WHEREAS, Social Security recipients have been receiving an
6 automatic cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, every year since
7 1975; and
8 WHEREAS, Approximately 1.5 million retired older
9 Pennsylvanians receive Social Security payments; and
10 WHEREAS, Pennsylvania ranks second only to Florida in
11 percentage of population age 65 or older; and
12 WHEREAS, Older Pennsylvanians on fixed incomes rely on Social
13 Security COLAs to help them keep up with increasing costs of
14 life essentials such as medications and groceries; therefore be
15 it
16 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
17 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania memorialize the President and the
1 United States Congress to oppose placing limits on cost-of-
2 living increases for Social Security recipients for the purpose
3 of reducing the Federal deficit; and be it further
4 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
5 the President of the United States, the presiding officers of
6 each house of Congress and to each member of Congress from
7 Pennsylvania.
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