Kent Conrad said...

We very much see it as a package. That is the way it was negotiated, and this was a difficult negotiation to get 18 of t...

We also increase the payroll tax very modestly, from the current combined rate of 12.4 percent to 13.4 percent over 10 y...

We create a basic minimum benefit that will apply to about 10 percent of Social Security.

I have seen retired schoolteachers have to go back to work in their 70's after their husbands have died or their wives h...