Kent Conrad: “The race to the bottom is what is going on in the world today, and if it is going to be stopped, it is going to take…”

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…

We also increase the payroll tax very modestly, from the current combined rate of 12.4 percent to 13.4 percent over 10 years.

I am eager to hear from our panelists to get a better sense of all the options they considered and how they reached consensus on the final report.

Millions of Americans are financially unprepared for their retirement.