Kent Conrad: “USDA has gotten the message, reducing travel, canceling bad loans, renegotiating the basic agreement on crop insurance.”

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

I do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.

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.

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