Put simply, these initiatives will treat national and homeland security as a bill-payer for deficit reduction.

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The Chief Actuary scores the bill as eliminating all future deficits of Social Security, with no benefit cuts or tax increases, assuring that all Social Security benefits will be paid.

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But Labour attacked the new system as "flawed and fudged" claiming the bill had as much to do with helping the coalition as with national security.

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And we have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care. (Applause.) And it is an extraordinary achievement that has happened because of all of you and all the advocates all across the country.

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His own immigration-policy plans, framed as a national-security issue, were not different in any meaningful way from the compromise bill that consumed Congress this spring, except that he wanted every illegal resident to come forward for a tamper-proof identity card before getting in line for citizenship.

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The electricity market reforms (EMR) proposed by the UK government as part of the UK Energy Bill are aimed at incentivising investment in low carbon energy while also ensuring the security of electricity supply.

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