I believe the risk to Medicare and Social Security recipients is a failure to act in a timely way to deal with the long-term debt trajectory that virtually every expert that has come before this Committee says is unsustainable.
Conrad emphasizes the urgent need to address long-term debt to protect Medicare and Social Security.
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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.
We very much see it as a package. That is the way it was negotiated, and this was a difficult negotiation to get 18 of the 19 to agree representing all points on the political spectrum.
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