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But will he be able to bring Congress together they way he says he has united the Texas Legislature. . Bush is calling for the creation of new personal retirement accounts that would let younger workers invest some of their Social Security payroll taxes in the stock market. Bush and Vice President Al Gore presented dueling visions for reforming the 65-year-old federal retirement program. Perhaps more than their differences on any other issue, the disagreement over how best to shore up the benefits that are paid to more than 40 million retirees is emblematic of the larger ideological divide between the two. |