Kent Conrad: “This is a serious allegation, some kind of concocted White House stealthy, secret plan.”

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

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 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.