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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The Congressional Budget Office tells us by 2052, Social Security could meet only 78 percent of its obligations. Medicare is in even worse shape. The shortfall in Medicare is eight times the deficit in Social Security. But the president has no plan to deal with that. The truth is, we need to confront all these challenges sooner rather than later.
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The ground-breaking research that will be done right here in North Dakota will allow our grandchildren to drive hydrogen-powered cars, live in hydrogen-powered homes and end our country's addiction to foreign sources of energy.
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The truth is there are no surpluses, ... There are liabilities.
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These growing deficits and debt threaten our nation's long-term economic security. As deficits climb, we are borrowing more and more money from Japan, China, and even South Korea. That makes us weaker,
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All of them are being threatened by this policy of ever escalating deficits and debt,
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I believe President Bush's campaign promises are unraveling, ... He claimed we could afford his massive tax cut, a major defense buildup, more money for education, while paying down the debt and protecting Social Security and Medicare. He was wrong.
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When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!
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The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.
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So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.
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Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.
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Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?
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Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.
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I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.
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America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.