Kent Conrad: “the Senator yesterday said he took it from the Finance Committee jurisdiction for mandatory spending. That is what the…”

What is realistic is to deal with these changes in a way that does expand access, that does expand the opportunity for people to participate in a retirement plan at work.

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…

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

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