Kent Conrad: “We are essentially putting on our children's backs a debt which they can never get out from underneath.”

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

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.

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.

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