While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future.

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.