Kent Conrad: “I personally believe the CBO forecast is overly optimistic.”

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…

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

The bottom 20 percent of earners get a 35-percent increase over what is scheduled, a more than 60-percent increase over what is payable.

This Retirement Security Plan structure that we have suggested I think would go a long way toward dealing with these issues.