Kent Conrad: “I think you will find a lot of allies on both sides of the aisle on this committee with respect to CFTC jurisdiction.”

Millions of Americans are financially unprepared for their retirement.

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…

It was incredibly important that we not only made Social Security solvent, but we lifted the bottom 20 percent dramatically.

The bottom 20 percent of earners get a 35-percent increase over what is scheduled, a more than 60-percent increase over what is payable.