Kent Conrad: “The President, I think, has to be supportive.”

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…

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

I urge you to vote for the confirmation of Dave Turk. I urge you to do it quickly.

I am eager to hear from our panelists to get a better sense of all the options they considered and how they reached consensus on the final report.