Political Quotes

We had literally hundreds of people and groups come before this commission. We listened intently for all sides on how we could fix these challenges.

It lifts the bottom. It asks those of us at the top to take a little less of an increase than we might have expected.

We very much see it as a package. That is the way it was negotiated, and this was a difficult negotiation to get 18 of the 19 to agree representing all points on the political spectrum.

It was incredibly important that we not only made Social Security solvent, but we lifted the bottom 20 percent dramatically.