Kent Conrad: “I have no interest in restricting the rights of the minority.”

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.

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…

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

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