Kent Conrad: “My calculus tells me that me that this year we will hit gross debt to GDP of just over 90 percent.”

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

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.

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

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