Frist Shifts Public Stance on Social Security Bill

NPR | By David Welna

Published March 3, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist backpedals on remarks earlier this week suggesting that a Social Security bill might not come to the floor this year. Thursday, Frist said there would be a bill this year.

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