Kent Conrad: “I believe strongly, it is critically important that we run deficits and add the debt in the short term.”

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.

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

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…

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.