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Cato Survey of Congressional Candidates

October 11, 2000

The Cato Institute recently contacted all Democratic and Republican candidates for Congress and asked them - "Do you favor or oppose Social Security reform that would allow workers to save a portion of their payroll taxes in a personal retirement account?"

Click here to see how your own Congressman or his challenger answered. Responses are drawn from their answers to our survey, from other published sources, and from the candidates' campaign literature.

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  The full retirement age today is 65 years and four months. It rises by two months every year, gradually increasing to age 67 for people born after 1959.
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