Kent Conrad: “As you have said, put bluntly, the decisionmaking process in Congress is broken. It must be fixed.”

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

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.

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…

We did a whole series of things in our Social Security reform not to discourage people from working, but to encourage them to continue working if they are able to do so.