I have described the President's budget as a 'good beginning.'
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Kent Conrad supports the President's budget as a positive start.
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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…
It was incredibly important that we not only made Social Security solvent, but we lifted the bottom 20 percent dramatically.
We all know that Social Security is going to have to be dealt with, or we are going to face by 2034 at the latest--many of us believe it will be earlier than that---an across-the-board 23-percent cut.
It is really very important. You know, what so make stakeholders told us is you have got to broaden this thing out.





