Kent Conrad: “I yield an additional 5 minutes to myself off of the resolution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maryland.”

The surviving spouse provisions are especially important with regard to offsetting some of the unfairness that exists elsewhere.

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 would say personally I would not go to a company advising me on wealth management that did not have it because I think whoever is advising me ought to have as their highest responsibility to be giving me advice that is in my interest.

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