Kent Conrad: “Well, you got a terrific one with her.”

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

We admire that, and I can say on both sides of the aisle, people recognize the job he did as Budget Committee Chairman.

The surviving spouse provisions are especially important with regard to offsetting some of the unfairness that exists elsewhere.

We tried to include some of these ideas in our Social Security reform package, to actually provide incentives in the system for people to continue to work.