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

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.

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…

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

All the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.