Kent Conrad: “It exceeded last year's deficit, which was the previous record, by $100 billion.”

I am eager to hear from our panelists to get a better sense of all the options they considered and how they reached consensus on the final report.

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

We tried to include some of these ideas in our Social Security reform package, to actually provide incentives in the system for people to continue to work.

Fully 64 percent of the American people said they were worried about not having enough money for retirement.