I have got to tell you, I found your comment just then very interesting. You said if members would just go and see these cleanup sites they would understand it.

What MPRA did was to allow plans that otherwise would fail entirely to preserve benefits and keep them from falling all the way to PBGC levels.

These proposals, while motivated by the best of intentions, would likely result in greater benefit cuts and greater suffering.

This bill was not designed as an alternative to MPRA but addresses one of the more egregious deficiencies.

Thank you for sponsoring the Pensions Accountability Act, which will fix the broken voting process in MPRA.

Well, that is a really important point to make, and I thank you for letting us know that there is a solution out there that is, I think, very reasonable.

It is not fair in terms of the result, and people say, 'Well, you are just worried because it is Ohio.' It is not just Ohio.

I cannot wait to talk to you, Rita, but let me just ask Cecil a quick question.

He had fierce determination. He was a Vietnam Veteran. He was a proud patriot.

The purpose is not to stop the process of fixing it, but to ensure that everyone is at the table.

You are speaking for hundreds of thousands of others, and I have met with hundreds of those pensioners of the Teamsters in Ohio.