Kent Conrad: “All time has been consumed. I am prepared to yield back the time on my side on this amendment so we can then go to…”

The consequence of failure has to be made clear.

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.'

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…