the bill that we are offering, r. 2844, basically would tax some of the assets of the most wealthy in our country and fill the gap between now and 10 years from now so these workers wouldn't have to take these cuts. it's truly unfair to them. it's time we operate in this congress with the oversight that this institution was built upon. it's time for the committees of jurisdiction to do their job. give these americans who are patriotic people, many of them are veterans, many of them have served our country so ably in so many ways, they've been good family people, they don't need to have their benefits cut in their retirement years. it has caused such havoc in these families, the worry alone, the blood pressures that have gone up, and the heart ache and the lost sleep of losing what they worked for their entire lives, what's happening to them is wrong. it is not just. it's time for the treasury department to deny the central states application to cut benefits and it's time that this congress keeps our pension promises to the american people who worked so hard, paid their taxes, helped b