GOP Chairman Sees Social Security Approval

WASHINGTON -- Congress will pass a Social Security bill, and Democrats who stand in the way will be considered obstructionists by voters, the head of the Republican Party said Monday in an Associated Press interview.

In the end, Congress will approve a measure that includes personal investment accounts, Ken Mehlman said. President Bush has been campaigning hard for the accounts in trips to many states.

"The reason I think we are going to get a bill is because the American public won't stand by and have Congress say, 'We know it's a problem that only gets worse every single day and yet we're going to do nothing,''' said Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee.

A recent AP poll showed that a majority of Americans do not approve of Bush's handling of Social Security or support private investment accounts.

-- NYSSCPA.org News Staff

Posted on 3/15/05