Kent Conrad: “There are not the votes in the United States Senate for the public option. There never have been.”

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

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.

I thought he was an outstanding Committee Chairman, and my former intern has succeeded him in his Congressional seat.

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