Kent Conrad: “As a taxpayer, I do not support $350 billion--and I did not at the beginning.”

I am eager to hear from our panelists to get a better sense of all the options they considered and how they reached consensus on the final report.

Well, you got a terrific one with her.

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

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…