Kent Conrad: “I believe that we are already in the early stages of a fiscal train wreck.”

The one thing I know for sure is that what is happening now is not working.

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.

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

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