Kent Conrad: “Let me alert colleagues, if this amendment is adopted, we will be here until 2 o'clock this morning. I hope that sobers…”

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.

If we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.

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

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