Kent Conrad: “We can do better, and we must.”

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…

We owe it to these men and women to strengthen our retirement system.

I am eager to hear from our panelists to get a better sense of all the options they considered and how they reached consensus on the final report.

I think there is just a tremendous opportunity here, and I really applaud the two of you for doing this in a bipartisan way.