Opening Statements
Johnson Opening Statement: Hearing on Securing the Future of the Social Security Disability Insurance Program
Sep 14, 2012-- Good morning and welcome to the fifth and last hearing in our series on securing the future of the Social Security Disability Insurance program. Over the course of the series we’ve heard about the program’s striking and continuing growth: at a time when workers paying into the system have increased nearly 70 percent between 1970 and today, the number of people collecting disability checks has inc... more