Kent Conrad: “The current budget process is simply not working.”

Millions of Americans are financially unprepared for their retirement.

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.

Can I just respond quickly, Mr. Chairman, and say when Simpson-Bowles went down, a group of six of us in the Senate, three Democrats, three Republicans, were asked by leadership to see if we couldn't come up with a way forward to adopt the…

We admire that, and I can say on both sides of the aisle, people recognize the job he did as Budget Committee Chairman.