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…”

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.

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

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…

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