Kent Conrad: “The vast majority of funding in the farm bill does not go to directly support farmers and ranchers, but directly goes to…”

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

The one thing I know for sure is that what is happening now is not working.

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.

We admire that, and I can say on both sides of the aisle, people recognize the job he did as Budget Committee Chairman.