Kent Conrad: “Revenue is the lowest it has been as a share of our gross domestic product in 60 years.”

I would just say our Retirement Security Plans and our Retirement Security Clearinghouses are responding to the underlying dynamic that Professor Mead has done such a good job in describing.

It lifts the bottom. It asks those of us at the top to take a little less of an increase than we might have expected.

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

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