Kent Conrad: “I think it is important to my constituents and certainly to me that we fully review the events of this last year.”

That I like to call the 'Conrad provision.'

It was incredibly important that we not only made Social Security solvent, but we lifted the bottom 20 percent dramatically.

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

I thought he was an outstanding Committee Chairman, and my former intern has succeeded him in his Congressional seat.