Jeff Bingaman actually said...

"Well I have heard people refer to the Federal Government as a big insurance policy with an army."

"I know that the argument is made now that we've got to go back to the previous level of the payroll tax in order to fund the Social Security Trust Fund, but there are bound to be alternative ways to p..."

"And your proposal is that at age 62 they would no longer be required to pay the worker's portion of the payroll tax?"

"I do not see why we want to undermine that."