Kent Conrad
Kent Conrad
Gaylord Kent Conradis a former United States Senator from North Dakota. He is a member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, the North Dakota affiliate of the Democratic Party. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he served as chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee for twelve years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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My own view is that we ought to protect the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, then, with what is left, have significant tax cuts.
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People are acting like this $5.6 trillion surplus is etched in stone. It's not. It's etched in quicksand.
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I found him to be extraordinarily intelligent, and he has assured me that he brings no ideological agenda to the Supreme Court. He wants to be a justice for all of the people.
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Forty-three per cent of the benefit goes to the wealthiest one per cent, those who are making $900,000 a year. There is no fairness in that.
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Today, I came really to talk about job creation,
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His tax cut is so big that he leaves no money to pay for a new prescription drug benefit without using the Medicare trust fund,
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He wants an additional $18 billion that is not in the budget. And my question to him is, this is spending you say is needed. How do you intend to pay for it?
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I think it is unlikely, absent some new information, some bombshell that comes up in the process, that I would support a filibuster.
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He has never felt there was a conflict between his own moral precepts and the precepts of his church and his role as a judge.
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He has given me his word on important matters.
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He has the right kind of demeanor to be a judge. He listens to others and is not dogmatic,
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Those are the very things I've urged the administration to do for some time.
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to give us their ideas and what they would recommend we do.
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What you've got here is the most severe winter on record, followed by the most violent winter storm in 50 years. At the same time you're facing the greatest flood threat in 150 years.