Kent Conrad: “Transit saves us highways and highway maintenance dollars and allows us to have a way that we can bring our communities…”

I urge you to vote for the confirmation of Dave Turk. I urge you to do it quickly.

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

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.

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