Kent Conrad: “We need a stimulus package. We need it badly. But we need it to be on point.”

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

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

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.