Kent Conrad: “I think we had better think very carefully about that as we go into this new Presidency.”

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…

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.

All the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.