If the Senator will continue to yield, that is why the language in the resolution says up to 50. Again, I say to my colleagues, I have every intention to pursue again the effort that you and the chairman of the committee pursued so vigorously last year.
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I do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.
It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.
I wish I could look you in the eye and say, you know, if we just had the will, we could reverse this, and we could go back to a time when defined benefit plans were on the increase. I do not think that is in the cards.
We did a whole series of things in our Social Security reform not to discourage people from working, but to encourage them to continue working if they are able to do so.
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