Kent Conrad: “I ask that 10 minutes of the chairman's time be yielded to me. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…”

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

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.

I have seen retired schoolteachers have to go back to work in their 70's after their husbands have died or their wives have died.

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.