Kent Conrad: “Deficits and debt are a function of the imbalance between spending and revenue.”

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

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

We admire that, and I can say on both sides of the aisle, people recognize the job he did as Budget Committee Chairman.

I thought he was an outstanding Committee Chairman, and my former intern has succeeded him in his Congressional seat.