Kent Conrad: “I am eager to hear from our panelists to get a better sense of all the options they considered and how they reached…”

Millions of Americans are financially unprepared for their retirement.

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

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 do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.