Let me say that Senator Harkin is telling us they do not know yet whether they will be back at that hour. So maybe we can leave that, have the debate tonight, and schedule that vote tomorrow as we know better the information that is of interest to the two Senators.
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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 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.
It was incredibly important that we not only made Social Security solvent, but we lifted the bottom 20 percent dramatically.
If we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.
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