Kent Conrad: “There is a disconnect...between what we are doing as a country here in terms of our fiscal policy and our monetary…”

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.

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.

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

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…