Kent Conrad: “I very much want to see that separate, not because I am not supporting doing something on cap-and-trade, because I am…”

That I like to call the 'Conrad provision.'

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.

It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.