Kent Conrad: “I disagree with you completely and believe that the testimony just does not reflect the recognition of what's happened…”

The surviving spouse provisions are especially important with regard to offsetting some of the unfairness that exists elsewhere.

Can I just respond quickly, Mr. Chairman, and say when Simpson-Bowles went down, a group of six of us in the Senate, three Democrats, three Republicans, were asked by leadership to see if we couldn't come up with a way forward to adopt the…

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.

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