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Leave Social Security Out of a Fiscal Cliff Deal

Posted at 12:45 p.m. on Nov. 16, 2012

Suzy Khimm speaks with Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), outgoing chair of the Senate Budget Committee, about the negotiations over the “fiscal cliff.”

Key quote: “We’ve got to separate out Social Security — the savings derived from there should be purely for the purpose of extending solvency of Social Security itself. Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.”

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