Bill Cassidy, M.D.: “Social Security does not have more time.”

“I wake up every morning, and I think about how to make life better in Louisiana and in the United States of America.”

What I am suggesting is we set up an investment fund. You called it a sovereign wealth fund. You could call it the nation’s 401k, and you set it up, separate from the Social Security Trust Fund, you put money in it, and you allow it to…

People are objecting to doing their job. They can offer their own proposal. That’s what’s frustrating. Congress needs to get down to work. Congress needs to fix Social Security this year.

We just need Congress to have the guts to step up and take action now and not continue to postpone until it’s too late. And they can’t even pass a bill to even discuss ideas. That’s the big problem.