Bill Clinton: “We have met several times, as you probably know, at various levels with Members in the House, and we have tried to get…”

“We have met several times, as you probably know, at various levels with Members in the House, and we have tried to get close to an agreement on that. The reason I said what I said today is that if they would just agree to my plan on paying down the debt and then dedicating a few years of the interest savings by locking up the Social Security taxes, which would happen a few years in the future, but if they would agree to do that, then that, alone, would extend the life of Social Security to 2050, which would take us out beyond the life expectancy of all but the most fortunate baby boomers. So I would hope that at least we could do that. Obviously, I would like to do more, and we're still working on that. But at the minimum, we could do this. Working With Congress”