Kent Conrad: “We need honest budgeting. We have got to have that, facts-based budgeting, not fantasy budgeting.”

We did a whole series of things in our Social Security reform not to discourage people from working, but to encourage them to continue working if they are able to do so.

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

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…

I urge you to vote for the confirmation of Dave Turk. I urge you to do it quickly.