Kent Conrad: “We must also address climate change. The scientific consensus is clear.”

The new improvised system was not adequate.

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…

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.