Kent Conrad: “The President has yet to look the American people in the eye and explain the basic fact that we have run out of money.”

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

I thought he was an outstanding Committee Chairman, and my former intern has succeeded him in his Congressional seat.

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…

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