Kent Conrad: “I am serious about cutting spending and I voted to do it on the Commission.”

I urge you to vote for the confirmation of Dave Turk. I urge you to do it quickly.

There is going to be a 23-percent cut across the board by 2034.

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…

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