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

It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.

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

We did a whole series of things in our Social Security reform not to discourage people from working, but to encourage them to continue working if they are able to do so.

I wish I could look you in the eye and say, you know, if we just had the will, we could reverse this, and we could go back to a time when defined benefit plans were on the increase. I do not think that is in the cards.