The Senator has made a good suggestion and one that Senator Gregg and I have just discussed that we will do during this break, and that is to try to put together, No. 1, a finite list of amendments that still require a vote; and, No. 2, a managers' amendment of bipartisan, noncontroversial amendments that could be agreed to as a package.
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It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.
We did a whole series of things in our Social Security reform not to discourage people from working, but to encourage them to continue working if they are able to do so.
Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.
I wish I could look you in the eye and say, you know, if we just had the will, we could reverse this, and we could go back to a time when defined benefit plans were on the increase. I do not think that is in the cards.
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