Kent Conrad: “Our country needs able people to volunteer for public service, and our military needs the support of dedicated civilians…”

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

We all know that Social Security is going to have to be dealt with, or we are going to face by 2034 at the latest--many of us believe it will be earlier than that---an across-the-board 23-percent cut.

I think there is just a tremendous opportunity here, and I really applaud the two of you for doing this in a bipartisan way.

the new improvised system was not adequate.