Kent Conrad: “We are trying to organize it so that in the end there has to be a bipartisan agreement.”

Well, you got a terrific one with her.

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

We owe it to these men and women to strengthen our retirement system.

Can I just respond quickly, Mr. Chairman, and say when Simpson-Bowles went down, a group of six of us in the Senate, three Democrats, three Republicans, were asked by leadership to see if we couldn't come up with a way forward to adopt the…