Mike Conaway: “I appreciate that. I, too, want to add my thanks to the gentleman from Georgia for hosting this hour tonight and for…”

“I appreciate that. I, too, want to add my thanks to the gentleman from Georgia for hosting this hour tonight and for going to the lengths that he has gone to gather us together to talk about this very important issue. Had I realized that we could use grandchildren as props as the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Wilson) did, I would have brought pictures of mine, because I want to make reference to my six wonderful grandchildren in a few minutes. So the gentleman from South Carolina, as always, has set a very high standard for discussion in this Chamber. Over the last several weeks at least, I have on occasion caught glimpses of a television commercial that I have found very troubling as we try to discuss and talk about this very important issue of Social Security reform. There is an organization out there that has a commercial running that talks about a clogged drain, a household drain, and they use that as a comparison to the problems and challenges that we face with Social Security. On its face, it is ludicrous to compare a normal, everyday occurrence of a clogged drain, one that you fix out of your normal operating budget and one that just happens all the time, to the very difficult- to-solve problems that we face with Social Security. We cannot fix those out of our normal operating budget, the normal budgetary process, the problems that we have where in 2017 we will begin to run a cash flow deficit.…”