Kent Conrad: “There are not the votes in the United States Senate for the public option. There never have been.”

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

That I like to call the 'Conrad provision.'

I would say personally I would not go to a company advising me on wealth management that did not have it because I think whoever is advising me ought to have as their highest responsibility to be giving me advice that is in my interest.

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