Kent Conrad: “He did say that. It is a rather remarkable statement. He thought it was good for the country that jobs were outsourced…”

Forty-six percent of the American people would have a hard time coming up with $400 for an emergency car repair.

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…

The consequence of failure has to be made clear.

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.