Kent Conrad: “There is no single element of Senate rules that goes more against minority rights than reconciliation that I know of.”

It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.

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.

There is going to be a 23-percent cut across the board by 2034.

If we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.