Kent Conrad: “This hearing and others like it that I've been holding is especially important as we consider a new transportation bill…”

I do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.

Millions of Americans are financially unprepared for their retirement.

The one thing I know for sure is that what is happening now is not working.

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…