Kent Conrad: “The chairman, once again, is gracious to provide another 2 minutes. I ask unanimous consent for 2 minutes from his time…”

The one thing I know for sure is that what is happening now is not working.

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

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…