Kent Conrad: “If we don't have a plan that all of us basically think has got merit, it will be abandoned.”

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.

What is going to happen to all the truck drivers of America when we have self-driving vehicles?

It was incredibly important that we not only made Social Security solvent, but we lifted the bottom 20 percent dramatically.

Forty-six percent of the American people would have a hard time coming up with $400 for an emergency car repair.