09/12/2011
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"We owe it to workers, retirees, employers, and taxpayers to put politics aside, as we've done in the past."
"I am hopeful we will do that."
"They put politics aside, worked with employers and labor unions, and negotiated a set of reforms to the multiemployer pension system."
"I voted no--but a benefit for 0.02 percent of the country of $200 billion."