Kent Conrad: “I also want to commend you and Senator Gregg for coming up with really a very thoughtful tax reform proposal.”

The surviving spouse provisions are especially important with regard to offsetting some of the unfairness that exists elsewhere.

I would say personally I would not go to a company advising me on wealth management that did not have it because I think whoever is advising me ought to have as their highest responsibility to be giving me advice that is in my interest.

This Retirement Security Plan structure that we have suggested I think would go a long way toward dealing with these issues.

You know, we did have discussions. One of the things on this commission, because of its makeup and the diversity of views on this commission, and the extraordinary difficulty of coming together on Social Security, which we thought was the…