I will give you my public commitment, as you have given your public commitment to me, to work in a bipartisan basis to accomplish good reforms for the disabled and the recipients of these benefits.

It means robbing Peter to pay Paul.

We have to have legislation to avert that.

Social Security does face a challenge, but it's a manageable one, one I look forward to addressing on a bipartisan basis.

We need a fix.

No. I don't believe that it is good enough.

The problem is that the law simply does not provide any penalty for the Government if it disregards those deadlines because any penalty that is provided is simply toothless.

I don't think anybody on this panel actually violated the law. Yet the IRS is pursuing them anyway.

Those local, State and local officers have a financial incentive in the enforcement of the law because under what is called equitable sharing, 80 percent of the money that is seized by the Federal Government can be returned to local law…

I believe it is from Stefan Cassella, that's the U.S. attorney.

It is also a problem at the State and local level because of the equitable sharing process.