When there's no agenda and no real message what happens is you can't really have a message. You can put lipstick on a pig all you day long but it's still a pig, ... This Week. |
When we get to the conference with the Senate, we'll consider it, but the Senate language, I think, is irresponsible, |
will empower consumers, not empower lawyers. |
Without compliance reform, more companies will default on their plans or simply stop offering plans to their employees, and taxpayers will be at a greater risk of being stuck with a multibillion-dollar bailout of the PBGC. |
[But he said there was little political appetite now for changing Social Security, a top priority of the Bush administration.] It's like asking Congress to eat a bowl of cold green peas, ... They don't want to do it. |
[Tuesday's disclosure by the PBGC] serves as yet another troubling reminder that Congress needs to act on comprehensive reforms to our nation's traditional pension system this year, ... I'm committed to completing work on comprehensive reform to protect workers, retirees and taxpayers. |