Kent Conrad: “Did you not assume in your 2006 budget resolution the extension of all the President's tax cuts?”

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.

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.

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

If we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.