When he was still leader of the Republican minority, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) put himself on the line and explicitly advocated raising the retirement age to 70. He stood by the comment for weeks until last month when he called it a mistake. Though he didn’t disown the idea, he said that, as a party elder, he should not have been setting the terms for a debate that will fall to the entire Congress, if and when it happens.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=114893