Kent Conrad: “I thank the Chair. I now ask if it is in order that I would offer a second point of order under the unanimous consent…”

Fully 64 percent of the American people said they were worried about not having enough money for retirement.

What is realistic is to deal with these changes in a way that does expand access, that does expand the opportunity for people to participate in a retirement plan at work.

I would just say our Retirement Security Plans and our Retirement Security Clearinghouses are responding to the underlying dynamic that Professor Mead has done such a good job in describing.

We all know that Social Security is going to have to be dealt with, or we are going to face by 2034 at the latest--many of us believe it will be earlier than that---an across-the-board 23-percent cut.