Congressman Larson's Committees
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March 12, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Today, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee voted to block Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson’s (CT-01) Resolution of Inquiry from coming before the full House for a vote.
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March 11, 2025
Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) opposed the partisan House Republican funding bill that cuts services for veterans, seniors, and families, and greenlights Trump-Musk's plan to gut the Social Security Administration.
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March 10, 2025
Under the guise of efficiency, Donald Trump’s administration is dismantling the agency that runs Social Security, threatening benefits that keep millions of Americans out of poverty and setting up a political gamble for the White House and congressional Republicans.
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March 10, 2025
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement after Elon Musk identified Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as key targets of the Trump Administration for cuts in an interview on Fox Business.
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March 10, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Today, Reps. John B. Larson (CT-01) and Ron Estes (KS-04) reintroduced the American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act with Reps. Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Rudy Yakym (IN-02) and 64 additional original cosponsors. The bill, which has received broad bipartisan support, permanently allows for immediate research and development expensing looking back to 2022, when the provision expired.
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March 8, 2025
Millions of Americans could soon feel the impact of the deep staffing cuts being planned at the Social Security Administration, which is undergoing a massive reorganization that the acting commissioner has acknowledged is being steered by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
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March 7, 2025
East Hartford, CT - Today, House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement after the Trump-appointed Acting Commissioner of Social Security announced the agency is changing the default overpayment withholding rate for Social Security beneficiaries from 10% to 100%.
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March 6, 2025
East Hartford, CT – Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) announced the introduction of the bipartisan Technology for Energy Security Act with Reps. Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Claudia Tenney (NY-24) and Mike Carey (OH-15) to extend the Inflation Reduction Act’s Investment Tax Credit for fuel cells and linear generators for another eight years.
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March 6, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement after Acting Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Dudek’s comments that ‘DOGE’ is making decisions about the agency’s future without an understanding of how the agency works were reported in the Washington Post.
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March 6, 2025
Donald Trump's administration - which is, in partnership with Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, waging a sweeping, shambolic crackdown on the federal workforce - is now ordering employees to stop reading the news on their office computers.