Kent Conrad: “I share the assessment of Senator Conrad and Dr. Johnson that the IMF's forecast for mildly positive global growth is…”

It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.

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

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 did a whole series of things in our Social Security reform not to discourage people from working, but to encourage them to continue working if they are able to do so.