In an interview with USA Today, President Bush said that he "will remind them (Congress) that we have an obligation to do the hard work on reforming Social Security."

Here is the Social Security excerpt of the preview:

Q: The rumor around the Hill is that the Democrats may consider some kind of personal accounts (for Social Security) if you'll consider tax increases to help finance them.

A: First of all, we ought to meet and we ought to meet in the spirit that, bring your best idea, and we'll sit down and see whether or not there's common ground to solve the problem. First thing is to get a commitment from people of both parties and both chambers to agree to work with the administration.

Q: But would you consider raising the...limit on income that's subject to the Social Security tax?

A: No preconditions for any talks. In other words, things are not in, things are not out. What I expect is people to come and say, here's the best way that we expect to solve the problem.

Q: Some of your conservative base are worried that you may be reconsidering your pledge against no new taxes.

A: I've showed that you can solve Social Security without raising taxes. I think it's important for people to bring their best ideas to the table to find if there's common ground on how to solve the problem. The first thing is to get people to commit to come to the table.

Read the entire report of the interview here.