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That is unacceptable that we would be in that position.

I just want to make it clear that my door is open.

We want to derail this ill-advised House proposal to not make things worse.

We want to work in a bipartisan way on both of the big issues of our time.

It would make it harder to do the bipartisan work on overpayments that we talked about in the Finance Committee.

The number one issue in the confirmation hearings for the Commissioner was this overpayment question.

I am here as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle

The question for the Congress and for the Senate is do we want to take the steps that the Chairman outlined

We Democrats know that the ultra-wealthy are avoiding nearly $2 trillion in taxes every ten years.

I said everybody has got to pay their fair share. No special exemptions for billionaires.

Social Security is only part of the structure in which we help with retirement, and more affluent Americans benefit enormously from tax-sheltered retirements.

I encourage all of us to actually act now, rather than waiting.

That is unacceptable that we would be in that position.

Is it smarter for us to fix that now and have 11 years in which we boost the Trust Fund?

So is that basic structure that he accurately described, is that a flaw or is that a future?

I just want to make it clear that my door is open.

We want to derail this ill-advised House proposal to not make things worse.

We want to work in a bipartisan way on both of the big issues of our time.