Kent Conrad: “I did not see the kind of leadership I hoped for in the State of the Union.”

You know, we did have discussions. One of the things on this commission, because of its makeup and the diversity of views on this commission, and the extraordinary difficulty of coming together on Social Security, which we thought was the…

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

I am eager to hear from our panelists to get a better sense of all the options they considered and how they reached consensus on the final report.

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