Kent Conrad: “I did not support the tax deal at the end of last year. That was a big number in the wrong direction.”

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.

Millions of Americans are financially unprepared for their retirement.

There is going to be a 23-percent cut across the board by 2034.

It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.