Kent Conrad: “We fully fund the President's defense and war costs request. So let's not have any misunderstanding about that for the…”

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

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

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

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…