Kent Conrad: “The ANWR amendment has been submitted. Are we taking time off the amendment? The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Yes, we are.”

People are smart, and if you just share with them the basic information, a lot of people will make a good decision.

The surviving spouse provisions are especially important with regard to offsetting some of the unfairness that exists elsewhere.

If you are really going to relieve me of the administrative burden, if you are going to really relieve me of the liability, if you are going to really relieve me of the cost other than the payroll transfer.

We tried to include some of these ideas in our Social Security reform package, to actually provide incentives in the system for people to continue to work.