Kent Conrad: “Middle-income families are really stressed.”

We admire that, and I can say on both sides of the aisle, people recognize the job he did as Budget Committee Chairman.

There is going to be a 23-percent cut across the board by 2034.

That I like to call the 'Conrad provision.'

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…