Kent Conrad: “I just spent the last year and a half getting a farm bill passed, and we paid for the farm bill.”

It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.

We ought to reestablish this benefit for survivors and those affected by disability.

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.