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 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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This administration is driving us over the cliff into deeper and deeper debt.
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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 truth is there are no surpluses, ... There are liabilities.
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A massive tax-cut scheme for the wealthiest among us, because that's what's really afoot here.
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The president's plan will give you a little boost and then look straight down, ... In fact, past 2004 it's worse than doing nothing.
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The only thing wrong with that statement is, it's not true, ... Of course people's privacy would have been jeopardized under such a provision.
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Who would have thought that when we began this week, we would have ended in this way?
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There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.
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You don't just stick with the same old plan when something of this consequence occurs.
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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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While this year's deficit will be lower than last year's record shortfall, the improvement is likely to be short-lived. Declarations of victory over budget deficits only distract from the disturbing long-term budget outlook,
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You can imagine the pressure that's on him, the things that are being suggested to him.
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to give us their ideas and what they would recommend we do.