Senate Republicans deny Social Security plan dead(DEMOCRATS: PLAN IS DEAD)

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Senate Republicans deny Social Security plan dead

By Susan Cornwell
Reuters
Thursday, June 16, 2005; 6:40 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans acknowledged on Thursday they had no consensus on how to change Social Security after months of trying but denied they were seeking an escape route from the contentious issue.

He said he was determined not to give up.

"If some Republicans are surrendering, Chuck Grassley isn't," Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said in a Capitol Hill hallway during a break in yet another meeting on the issue.

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DEMOCRATS: PLAN IS DEAD

Democrats say Bush's personal accounts plan is dead and Republicans should abandon it. On Thursday, Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy said Bush and lawmakers should focus instead on how to resolve a crisis in the funding of corporate pensions, suggesting a bipartisan consensus was more attainable there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601185.html