Kent Conrad: “These people have been born. They are alive today. They are going to be eligible for Social Security and Medicare.”

We tried to include some of these ideas in our Social Security reform package, to actually provide incentives in the system for people to continue to work.

All the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.

The new improvised system was not adequate.

We owe it to these men and women to strengthen our retirement system.