Kent Conrad: “This is important to talk about and so critical for us as Senators up here and the Members of the House.”

The bottom 20 percent of earners get a 35-percent increase over what is scheduled, a more than 60-percent increase over what is payable.

I thought he was an outstanding Committee Chairman, and my former intern has succeeded him in his Congressional seat.

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…

I do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.