Kent Conrad: “It would be an utterly empty exercise around here not to get the votes to actually pass things.”

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…

All the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.

Millions of Americans are financially unprepared for their retirement.

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