Kent Conrad: “I came here today simply to ask you to act. I know these cuts are politically difficult, but this is not a decision we…”

Fully 64 percent of the American people said they were worried about not having enough money for retirement.

The new improvised system was not adequate.

We tried to include some of these ideas in our Social Security reform package, to actually provide incentives in the system for people to continue to work.

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