Kent Conrad: “The more we want our markets in other respects to be open and free and to allow for failure... that requires more not…”

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

Millions of Americans are financially unprepared for their retirement.

The one thing I know for sure is that what is happening now is not working.

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…