Kent Conrad: “We have provisions right now that encourage us to invest, and we need to invest heavily in the Bakken.”

We owe it to these men and women to strengthen our retirement system.

Millions of Americans are financially unprepared for their retirement.

You know, we did have discussions. One of the things on this commission, because of its makeup and the diversity of views on this commission, and the extraordinary difficulty of coming together on Social Security, which we thought was the…

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