Jay Rockefeller

West Virginia’s two major-party candidates for the U.S. Senate support raising the Social Security wage base limit from its current level of $117,000, and in an Oct. 7 debate both voiced concern over the long-term financing of the program.

Even the exit of a crop of senators born before World War II doesn't seem to be having much effect on the average age in the U.S. Senate, the Washington Post reports.