Kent Conrad: “The debt right now is threatening our economic recovery in the short term as well as the long term”

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 urge you to vote for the confirmation of Dave Turk. I urge you to do it quickly.

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

It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.