Kent Conrad: “Whatever one calls it, it is not what Senator Gregg and I have tried to send as a message.”

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

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…

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

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.