Ron Wyden actually said...

"We need to get over that illusion."

"What this is really about is making sure that Congress ensures that the promise that pension benefits are all about is protected."

"This is an extraordinarily important time for our country, colleagues, because there is a longstanding principal of pension law that says you do not take away benefits that our workers have earned."

"In this country, that is not the way it is supposed to work."