Kent Conrad: “In the short term, we have got to strengthen this recovery.”

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.

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.

You know, we did have discussions. One of the things on this commission, because of its makeup and the diversity of views on this commission, and the extraordinary difficulty of coming together on Social Security, which we thought was the…

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