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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I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with spending cuts or new revenue to prevent us from raiding the Medicare and Social Security trust funds,
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When I went to Roosevelt grade school in Bismark, North Dakota, if you reduced spending by $39 and you reduced your income by $70, you were deeper in the hole, ... You've added to the deficit. You haven't reduced it.
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It's the combination of massive tax cuts combined with massive spending on Iraq and Katrina when we already weren't able to pay our bills,
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You don't need some whole new unfettered access to individual tax returns of people or of companies in order to figure out how the IRS is spending its money,
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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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It would perhaps be better if someone had experience as a judge, but I don't consider the fact that she has not had experience to be disqualifying, ... She has important legal experience and enjoys a good reputation.
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As the news this morning of increased joblessness and earlier reports of exploding deficit and debt reveal, the president's economic policy is a disaster. Obviously, the secretary of the treasury and Mr. Lindsey are being sacrificed to protect the president. Sadly, the removal of these economic officials will do nothing if they are simply replaced with yes-men committed to the president's relentlessly partisan agenda of pushing tax cuts at the expense of all else.
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You don't just stick with the same old plan when something of this consequence occurs.
I think he can get from 75 to 80 votes.
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Those are the very things I've urged the administration to do for some time.
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Today, I came really to talk about job creation,
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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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I am impressed with his demeanor, his intelligence, his sense of humor, his modesty, ... Absent some bombshell, which I don't expect, I think he will be confirmed and quite handily.
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I became involved in helping those with arthritis - and those with other diseases that could benefit from access to self-injected medications - because I strongly believe people suffering from these illnesses should have access to the best medical care available today.