Kent Conrad said...

if we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.

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.

We very much see it as a package. That is the way it was negotiated, and this was a difficult negotiation to get 18 of t...

we need to get to the bottom of this, as Senator Sasse said, and find out who killed these CO-OPs.