SOCIAL SECURITY AND PENSIONS HIGHLIGHTS  THE XXXX RECORD SOCIAL SECURITY XXXX Voted to Repeal the 1993 Social Security Tax Increase. In 2005, XXXX voted for an amendment that would repeal the 1993 tax increase on Social Security and increase the five-year tax cut reconciliation instruction figure by $63.9 billion. The same day, he voted to express the Sense of the Senate that the tax cut package should include the repeal of the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits. In 2003, XXXX voted for an amendment that would express the sense of the Senate that the 1993 tax increase on Social Security benefits should be repealed. [Vote 74, 3/17/05; Vote 73, 3/17/05; Vote 148, 5/15/03]  XXXX Voted Against Proposal to Repeal 1993 Social Security Tax Hike By Cutting Taxes for the Wealthy. In 2003, XXXX voted against an amendment that would repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits. It would be offset by eliminating from the 2003 Bush tax cut (the “Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003”) the provision related to dividend tax cuts and upper income tax rate reductions. [Vote 149, 5/15/03; Associated Press, 5/15/03] XXXX Voted Against Democrats’ Call to Reject Any Social Security Plan that Requires Deep Benefit Cuts; Voted for GOP Call to Do the Same. In 2005, XXXX voted against a Democratic amendment that would express the sense of the Senate that Congress should reject any Social Security plan that “requires deep benefit cuts or a massive increase in debt.” It also would urge Congress to take action to address Social Security solvency. But XXXX voted for a GOP amendment that would express the sense of the Senate that Congress should reject any Social Security plan “that requires deep benefit cuts or a massive increase in debt,” and that a failure to act would result in much higher debt, benefit cuts and tax increases. [Vote 49, 3/15/05; Vote 48, 3/15/05] XXXX Voted for Tax Cuts Over Social Security. In 2005, XXXX voted against an amendment that would make the consideration of new tax cuts or net mandatory spending that would increase the deficit subject to a 60-vote point of order unless Congress restored the solvency of Social Security for 75 years. [Vote 47, 3/15/05] XXXX Voted To Allow Using the Social Security Trust Fund to Pay Off the National Debt. In 2003, XXXX voted to kill an amendment that would prevent use of the Social Security Trust Fund to pay off any of the federal debt. [Vote 201, 5/23/03] XXXX Voted against Expressing the Sense of The Senate That Social Security COLAs Should Not Be Reduced. In 2003, XXXX voted against an amendment that would express the sense of the Senate that cost-of- living adjustments for Social Security recipients should not be reduced. [Vote 198, 5/23/03] XXXX Voted to Repeal A Tax Increase On Social Security Benefits; Would Have Increased Tax Cuts By $145.6 Billion. In 2003, XXXX voted for an amendment that would increase tax cuts in the resolution by $145.6 billion by repealing the 1993 Social Security benefits tax increase. [Vote 94, 3/25/03] XXXX Voted Against Cutting Bush Tax Cut In Half, To $350 Billion, With Savings Going To Social Security Reserve And Deficit Reduction. In 2003, XXXX voted against cutting Bush’s proposed $726 billion tax cut in half, to $350 billion, and allocate the funding to a new Social Security reserve account and deficit reduction. The amendment would reduce tax cuts in the resolution to $350 billion and allocate $120 billion of the subsequent 249