Kent Conrad: “I want to indicate my strong disagreement with Mr. Daniels on that position. I think that is the entirely wrong position…”

“I want to indicate my strong disagreement with Mr. Daniels on that position. I think that is the entirely wrong position to take. In fact, in the U.S. Senate, on a bipartisan basis, we voted overwhelmingly, last year, on a provision I offered to protect both the Social Security trust fund and the Medicare trust fund surpluses, to protect them against raids for other purposes. Now Mr. Daniels has announced a policy of being willing to protect the Social Security trust fund but not the Medicare trust fund. I hope he will rethink that issue. I hope he will agree with what was a strong bipartisan vote here in the U.S. Senate last year, to protect both the Social Security trust fund and the Medicare trust fund surpluses. We should not permit raids of either one of them.”