Kent Conrad said...

It lifts the bottom. It asks those of us at the top to take a little less of an increase than we might have expected.

When you are borrowing $0.40 of every $1, that cannot continue much longer.

Any prudent person, I think, would say, we are going to have to make some changes.

I also greatly appreciate the support of Senator Conrad from North Dakota as a cosponsor of this legislation.