Kent Conrad: “There is no objection to that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Is there a sufficient second?”

I have seen retired schoolteachers have to go back to work in their 70's after their husbands have died or their wives have died.

Fully 64 percent of the American people said they were worried about not having enough money for retirement.

We all know that Social Security is going to have to be dealt with, or we are going to face by 2034 at the latest--many of us believe it will be earlier than that---an across-the-board 23-percent cut.

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