Kent Conrad: “If you do not deal with the long-term imbalances, our country is going to look like a Banana Republic.”

We admire that, and I can say on both sides of the aisle, people recognize the job he did as Budget Committee Chairman.

That I like to call the 'Conrad provision.'

I would just say in this whole area of lifetime income options, there is a tremendous opportunity here.

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