Kent Conrad: “It is designed to jump-start the economy, create jobs, lay a foundation for long-term economic growth.”

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

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.

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

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…