Kent Conrad: “Budget resolutions have become messaging instruments, not budgeting instruments.”

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

I thought he was an outstanding Committee Chairman, and my former intern has succeeded him in his Congressional seat.

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.

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.