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Committee on Economic Security

The Committee on Economic Security was a short-term, high-level committee of the United States government in the middle years of the 1930s that drafted the original Social Security Act, passed by Congress on . It was known originally as The President's Committee on Economic Security, but has long been known by the shorter title. The committee was appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in June, 1934 and continued to function for approximately six months.