trust is important because if I am a retiree out there and I have paid in I am now questioning, learning this, am I getting what I should be getting?

Employers have a responsibility to do everything they can to meet their commitments.

the mistakes that the agency made some number of years ago undermines the security we want to offer to everybody.

Thank you, Dr. McGowan. I am going to just start by--with Ms. Haggerty, if you don't mind, and want to thank you for making the investment in U.S. companies, for funding your pension plan.

A promise made is a promise kept.

the House is about to do--to write into law or try to write into law the most optimistic forecast about revenues, which I don't think would serve us well.

The best way to ensure a plan's future is to increase its funded status by stable and predictable funding infusions.

I can assure you there are a hundred and something thousand American Airlines workers right now that are worried to death: Am I going to get what I was promised?

What most Americans fear now... is outliving your retirement plan.

I think we have a solemn promise to people when you make those promises that we keep those promises.

I called my local VA yesterday and spent some time on the phone with them to find out exactly how this process worked.

One of the things I would like you to look at when you are reviewing this is are you finding any of the medications on the PPV, companies leaving them off because the margins are so thin, knowing that they will go around the contract into…