Kent Conrad: “If we do not move more water off the west side of the lake... we will face extremely serious consequences downstream.”

You know, we did have discussions. One of the things on this commission, because of its makeup and the diversity of views on this commission, and the extraordinary difficulty of coming together on Social Security, which we thought was the…

What is realistic is to deal with these changes in a way that does expand access, that does expand the opportunity for people to participate in a retirement plan at work.

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 do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.