Kent Conrad: “We are on an unsustainable course, and we have an obligation, we have a very serious and somber obligation to come up…”

Forty-six percent of the American people would have a hard time coming up with $400 for an emergency car repair.

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

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.