Kent Conrad: “I believe the economic recovery package as it is now structured does not adequately address the underlying housing and…”

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

I think there is just a tremendous opportunity here, and I really applaud the two of you for doing this in a bipartisan way.

If you had to reduce it to a word, I would reduce it to 'globalization.'

We also increase the payroll tax very modestly, from the current combined rate of 12.4 percent to 13.4 percent over 10 years.