Kent Conrad: “The eyes of the Nation were on North Dakota and Minnesota at those moments, and the people of this country were…”

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.

If you are really going to relieve me of the administrative burden, if you are going to really relieve me of the liability, if you are going to really relieve me of the cost other than the payroll transfer.

We tried to include some of these ideas in our Social Security reform package, to actually provide incentives in the system for people to continue to work.