Kent Conrad: “The idea that we should raise taxes in this economy is not a good idea.”

Things are changing very rapidly, and it presents us with a requirement to change how we envision retirement as well.

I urge you to vote for the confirmation of Dave Turk. I urge you to do it quickly.

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…

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.