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Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself.

Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

I don't support getting rid of Social Security.

But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.

For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run.

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.