You know, a couple comments on some things said Senator Carpool was talking about the commission on Social Security, recognizing if we didn't do something, benefits were going to be cut. That's the current law. If we don't do anything when this bookkeeping convention runs out on the trust fund, benefits will be reduced to the level of restraint seats. So it's just, you can't take it off the table. You have to address it or we're going to be hitting something that the American people are not going to like and they shouldn't. (36:04–36:13)
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