Kent Conrad: “I am not going to be at all interested in something that truncates or reduces the rights of the minority.”

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

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…

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.

That I like to call the 'Conrad provision.'