Kent Conrad: “The Senator can see here the answer to the question he posed to me. I would ask: Who is holding the debt?”

All the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.

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

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…