Kent Conrad: “We did get 11 of 18 to agree--five Democrats, five Republicans, one Independent. And we reduced the debt $4 trillion…”

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

If you had to reduce it to a word, I would reduce it to 'globalization.'

We owe it to these men and women to strengthen our retirement system.

The bottom 20 percent of earners get a 35-percent increase over what is scheduled, a more than 60-percent increase over what is payable.