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On the recordApril 4, 2017
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.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Conrad discusses the decline of defined benefit plans and the unrealistic prospect of reversing this trend.

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