The Venezuelan people are hungry.

The situation in Venezuela today is truly heartbreaking.

the American people are not really looking to assign blame for why the economy is so anemic and the so-called recovery has not truly reached into those folks living paycheck to paycheck.

Thank you for providing us an opportunity to have this conversation around how to create access to retirement plans for more employees.

Frankly, I think the number is 60 percent of employees who work at a firm with 20 or fewer employees.

The challenges that we face are only going to get worse and not better as time moves on.

From my perspective, the average small employer with 20 employees or less doesn't have the time or the inclination to invest in this process.

If, in fact, Senator Warren said that we have one-third of the country close to retirement with not a penny in savings and another third without 1 year of their annual income in savings, the ability to redefine nexus perhaps will be an…

Actually, they created the most onerous regulatory State in the history of our country.

I would suggest that the numbers themselves bear out the fact that perhaps the anemic recovery is not a recovery for those folks working paycheck to paycheck.

We are going to have to have a national conversation about the quality of education in our country.

I can tell you that the American people want solutions more than blame.

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