Isn't it true that while President Clinton had not submitted a full budget, he had submitted sufficient detail so the cost of his budget proposals could be estimated by the Committee on the Budget, the CBO, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and so the Senate, acting in 1993, had all of the reestimates done that told us the cost of his proposal?
Discussing the budget proposals submitted by President Clinton.
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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.
I do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.
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