Kent Conrad: “I would be happy to ask the Senator from Maryland a question, if he would yield for that purpose.”

We tried to include some of these ideas in our Social Security reform package, to actually provide incentives in the system for people to continue to work.

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 thought he was an outstanding Committee Chairman, and my former intern has succeeded him in his Congressional seat.

If you had to reduce it to a word, I would reduce it to 'globalization.'