Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

to ask them to contribute a little bit more of the above $10 million salary to Social Security does not seem like asking a lot.

What are we going to do about the $1.2 trillion that goes out the back door of the tax code through loopholes?

there is a quality of this just being a very seamy and disreputable side of the legislative business

My belief is that solving that problem with cuts while in a recession has been proven by experience to be a failed strategy.