Kent Conrad: “That is not correct. There is no ban on second-degree amendments. This second-degree amendment specifically provided for…”

Organize and educate I think are the two keys to getting anything big through Congress.

Can I just respond quickly, Mr. Chairman, and say when Simpson-Bowles went down, a group of six of us in the Senate, three Democrats, three Republicans, were asked by leadership to see if we couldn't come up with a way forward to adopt the…

if we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.