But to do that, we have to do something we haven't done in a long time. Get ready, buckle your seat belts. I'm talking about legislating, actually bringing a measure to the floor and opening it to amendment. We would say you can offer an amendment, if you wish, to anyone's proposal for Social Security, but whatever you do has to buy a minimum of 50 years solvency for Social Security and then let's vote. There'll be some ideas that will be crazy and you wouldn't even consider them. But I think we could work to a bipartisan solution to our challenge as well. (07:15–07:29)
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