Tom Coburn: “actually the Social Security Administration, since 1955, gives a real rate of return of 0.6 percent.”

I have never heard of an Agency that said it had more than enough money.

That is not partisan. That is just due to the fact that there is not a commitment to reconciliation and working together to get things done.

We have something we call 'maintenance of effort' that we use in other programs, educational programs, when there is Federal money, we say to States, 'You have to maintain effort.'

People--if they are not being held accountable, they do not want to be held accountable--and transparency is what holds them accountable.