Kent Conrad: “I think there is just a tremendous opportunity here, and I really applaud the two of you for doing this in a bipartisan…”

I urge you to vote for the confirmation of Dave Turk. I urge you to do it quickly.

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

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…

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