Kent Conrad: “To further understand, the yielding of time to the Senator from Louisiana is off the amendment; is that correct? The…”

if we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.

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…

This Retirement Security Plan structure that we have suggested I think would go a long way toward dealing with these issues.

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