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

Things are changing very rapidly, and it presents us with a requirement to change how we envision retirement as well.

You know, we did have discussions. One of the things on this commission, because of its makeup and the diversity of views on this commission, and the extraordinary difficulty of coming together on Social Security, which we thought was the…

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.

If you had to reduce it to a word, I would reduce it to 'globalization.'