Kent Conrad: “As a practical matter, I find it hard to believe that we could get to the end of this process without a President being…”

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

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

You know, we did have discussions. One of the things on this commission, because of its makeup and the diversity of views on this commission, and the extraordinary difficulty of coming together on Social Security, which we thought was the…

It lifts the bottom. It asks those of us at the top to take a little less of an increase than we might have expected.