Lloyd Smucker: “We can’t allow that to happen, and the only way you address that is to start being serious and realistic about the math…”

Again, with what I started with, it is very important we get this resolution done. There is a better path forward. We have an amendment that could be passed in this resolution that would satisfy where the Senate is, where the House is. As…

I think this requires a conversation, a broad conversation with the American people, talk about … what it is that we can do to change, to make good on the promises on Social Security, but also change the fiscal trajectory.

The allegations are really disturbing just as they are in Minnesota and other places where we've seen this.

We must hold that line on fiscal discipline to put the country back on a sustainable path.