Kent Conrad: “maybe my ears deceived me. I heard the Senator say $112 billion. My reading on the amendment is $112 million.”

I wish I could look you in the eye and say, you know, if we just had the will, we could reverse this, and we could go back to a time when defined benefit plans were on the increase. I do not think that is in the cards.

I think there is just a tremendous opportunity here, and I really applaud the two of you for doing this in a bipartisan way.

I would say personally I would not go to a company advising me on wealth management that did not have it because I think whoever is advising me ought to have as their highest responsibility to be giving me advice that is in my interest.

The surviving spouse provisions are especially important with regard to offsetting some of the unfairness that exists elsewhere.