Kent Conrad: “We are on a collision course with reality, and the reality is we cannot afford as a Nation all of the things that we are…”

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…

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 do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.