I think your conclusion is correct, that there ought to be some exemption for minimum distribution requirements, say $100,000, that can be taken out without its being required to be taken out.

As a native Pennsylvanian, you know a lot about what is going on in CHIP in Pennsylvania.

We did pass Medicare a couple years ago, in 1965. At that time, a third of elderly Americans lived below the poverty line.

Give me a sense, if you can--as we try to design policy around the questions of giving those individual investors the tools they need to deal with that basic change, the question of educating investors--what more can we do?

Simplify, yes.

It is my sincere hope that the tradition of bipartisanship in retirement policy will continue and that the next retirement bill that comes out of this committee and becomes law will be known as Wyden/Hatch.

This program has come together because of the extraordinary leadership of Chairman Rockefeller.

That is one reason that I and others have proposed reforming Social Security to include a flat, universal benefit set at the poverty level that would go to all retirees regardless of income or labor force participation.

I think we are going to get the question with respect to, so we have the ACA, we have the Affordable Care Act, and it expands coverage. So, if we have the Affordable Care Act and it expands coverage, so how come we need this other deal…

It would cost the Federal Government more money.

this is a program where there is a consensus that it genuinely helps people in need, and particularly our vulnerable children.

Lately, however, I have become concerned that there is a political strategy by some in Congress to turn pension policy into just another partisan battleground.

The American taxpayer delivers $140 billion each year to subsidize retirement accounts, but still millions of Americans nearing retirement have little or nothing saved.

You and the President have made a very strong case that ISIL, if left unchecked, will be a threat to Europe and to the United States.

What makes us believe that, when we train-and-equip them, that they will turn their attention to fighting ISIL?

Do you see evidence that this kind of effort is working, that these tribal leaders that have been marginalized or excluded are now going to trust what we're doing?

I think the mission, as described, is reasonable. But, I think Congress is necessary.

It is my hope that this body will grapple with this four-point plan, will ask tough questions, will refine it...