06/03/2010
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"The Finance Committee is a place where Democrats and Republicans can come together to find solutions to the enormous retirement challenge in America."
"It is my view that this committee and the Congress should move on this bill as soon as possible."
"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."
"Americans today are paying for a distorted set of priorities."